Sentence examples for principles of utility from inspiring English sources
The new statutes (1803 and 1804) maintained the principles of utility and secular scientific instruction.
The deal has come under fire from both corporate customers and consumer groups who say its terms would violate longstanding principles of utility rate-making law by putting the burdens on ratepayers and giving virtually all the benefits to the gas utility's shareholders.
The principles of utility, by contrast, provide no guarantee of any of these goods.
Rawls contends that these "strains of commitment" created by the parties' agreement strongly favor the principles of justice over the principles of utility and other teleological views.
By extending uncertainty representations to model imprecision explicitly, it is possible to apply the principles of utility theory to such problems.
Not surprisingly, following the maximin rule of choice results in choice of the principles of justice over the principles of utility (average or aggregate); for unlike utilitarianism, justice as fairness guarantees equal basic liberties, fair equal opportunities, and an adequate social minimum for all citizens.
The words applied to Sorel at one point could apply to Stendhal himself: "You haven't a Frenchman's frivolous mind, and you understand the principle of utility".
Mankind, he said, was governed by two sovereign motives, pain and pleasure; and the principle of utility recognized this state of affairs.
Solidarity is not a familiar concept any more; the trades unions are no longer respected; strikes are now judged according to the principle of utility and are condemned by the Greatest Happiness Test.
He deduced from the principle of utility that, since all punishment involves pain and is therefore evil, it ought only to be used "so far as it promises to exclude some greater evil".
In this book he defined the principle of utility as "that property in any object whereby it tends to produce pleasure, good or happiness, or to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered".
