Sentence examples for utilitarian calculus from inspiring English sources
In the utilitarian calculus, needs always trump enjoyments.
That utilitarian calculus is applied every day in various contexts.
This instinct, he suggests, tends to overwhelm any utilitarian calculus that would tot up the lives saved and lost.
Jeremy Bentham dismissed the idea of natural rights as "nonsense upon stilts," because it stood in the way of a proper utilitarian calculus of human welfare.
Making these sorts of wholly intangible "symbolic" concessions, like an apology or recognition of a right to exist, simply doesn't compute on any utilitarian calculus.
In recent years, many families have embarked on international adoptions not for humanitarian or religious reasons but out of a more utilitarian calculus of supply and demand.
To be done with the judgment of God, indeed - or, at least, an existentially heroic "No" to corporate buck-passing, self-justified by a gross, utilitarian, reflexive calculus of self-preserving satisfied pigs (as opposed to Socrates dissatisfied) in fealty to a, or perhaps only the idea of, a, vindictive, wrathful God.
Their utilitarian moral theories placed individuals on a par in the social calculus by asking about the greatest good for the greatest number.
Rawls (1971 175f) and Jeremy Waldron (1987: 143f) object that the utilitarian approach will ultimately only convince those who stand to benefit from the felicific calculus, and that it lacks an argument to convince those who stand to lose.
