Sentence examples for our utilitarian from inspiring English sources

They've turned our utilitarian product into a thing of luxury.

In our "utilitarian" world, he claims, we find it difficult to abandon "instrumental thinking," and argues, drawing on Aristotle, Plato and Moritz Schlick, that humans should always aim to engage in activities and with individuals for their intrinsic value.

But in our increasingly utilitarian times, hobbies are seen as a waste of time.

It is noteworthy that utility discounting is compatible with our ordinal utilitarian definition of sustainability.

A 1931 editorial in The New York Times observed: "Ours is a utilitarian age, of course, and one afflicted at the moment with a disease called a Depression.

We change our minds for utilitarian reasons, too.

"We are making substantial efforts but our estate is utilitarian and we have a £28m backlog in maintenance work," says Ian Simpson, head of estates.

Some emotions might make us more deontological, but others could make our responses more utilitarian.

This claim would hold whether our values are utilitarian or deontological or something else entirely.

As technology replaced the utilitarian function of our pets, their role in our homes, place in our families, and value in the world have shifted dramatically.

But, as Naika Foroutan, a social scientist and deputy head of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), warned in the TAZ, "the narrative that's being propagated that 'we need immigrants in order to secure our pensions', is too utilitarian.