Sentence examples for utilitarian assessment from inspiring English sources

What is required is not a libertarian utopia in which the state retreats from any concern about personal conduct, but a coolly utilitarian assessment of the costs and benefits of different methods of intervention.

A utilitarian assessment of practical principles has to consider not only their observance utility (OU), which is what good will come of enacting them, but also their acceptance utility (AU), which is (roughly) what good will come of intending to enact them.

Utilitarian assessments of bariatric surgery for young people are difficult as high quality knowledge on benefits is scarce[ 39].

In summary, VPC-tDCS changed utilitarian judgment only in females.

Self-reported utilitarian walking; accelerometer-assessed daily steps.

However, the direct utilitarian can and should distinguish between the moral assessment of an act and the moral assessment of the act of praising or blaming that act.

The contributions of the school of marginal costs (the value of an additional unit of a good) and the introduction of the term 'subjective utility' as an individual assessment of a good as an exchange or utilitarian object by the evaluator led to the identity of utilitarian or exchange value.

With the increasing prevalence of clinical sonography in the peri-resuscitation setting allowing immediate assessment of cardiac activity, we can return to the utilitarian EMD and drop PEA into a linguistic dust bin, where it belongs.

Participants were asked to report their utilitarian walking in the past 3 months and this could mean that the season of assessment (a covariate in fully adjusted models) may not have been time-matched to the self-reported utilitarian walking.

While the principle of utility retreats to the background as a standard of overall normative assessment, moral rights serve as everyday sources of direct moral obligation, making Spencer no less an indirect utilitarian than Mill.

This is ethically utilitarian ('the greatest happiness of the greatest number'), and it was based on threat and vulnerability, but other methods of assessment could be used, such as those based on complementarity, representativeness or any of the core methods of systematic conservation planning (Kukkala & Moilanen, 2013).