Sentence examples for utilitarian assumption from inspiring English sources
In "Reply to McMichael" (1978a) he complains about the utilitarian assumption that "any sort or amount of evil can be neutralized, as if it had never been, by enough countervailing good —and that the balancing evil and good may be entirely unrelated" (1978a: 85).
The widely-held utilitarian assumption throughout the culture that the triage of gender equality advancement requires a privileging of (traditionally) masculinized fields such as engineering and science over fields such as the arts misses out on the full potential of innovation.
Neither book makes any significant technical contribution to the study of economics (though Ruskin thought otherwise); both memorably express Ruskin's moral outrage at the extent to which the materialist and utilitarian ethical assumptions implicit in this new technique for understanding human behaviour had come to be accepted as normative.
This form of rationality is based on a set of utilitarian values and assumptions that suggest that people should always try to get the most out of life (maximization of goals), and that the most efficient way to go about this is to view all aspects of life as either means, like commodities, or ends, like profit.
Therefore, this result challenges this assumption that built environment affects utilitarian travel only through shortening travel time and distance.
The utilitarian idea that a dying person is five or six lives saved is implicit in the assumption that part of our living being is as organ banks in waiting.
It seems dubious to say that we should transcend tribe and be utilitarian because all people are equal, when the equal status of strangers and kin is an unproven and counterintuitive assumption.
Because the utilitarian philosophy of resource allocation is so pervasive in our society, it is not necessarily obvious that this core assumption is a value.
This is a utilitarian vocabulary.
The first is utilitarian.
