Sentence examples for utilitarian considerations from inspiring English sources

The justification for this is not limited to utilitarian considerations.

Utilitarian considerations like Mary's quality of life are not the issue.

Among the utilitarian considerations made by Aston's engineers, the trunk's capacity has been increased 60 percent compared to the DBS.

The very integrity of science demands that not only utilitarian considerations but even the reflection upon the stature of man be left in abeyance.

She argued that totalitarian regimes, through their pursuit of raw political power and their neglect of material or utilitarian considerations, had revolutionized the social structure and made contemporary politics nearly impossible to predict.

It could be argued that, because the state conceived by Spinoza is based not on superstitious faith but on a social contract originating in rational, utilitarian considerations, it does not need to have its authority safeguarded and stabilized by means of religion.

A final utilitarian consideration is Bentham's (1891) idea of providing the greatest happiness for the greatest number broadly construed.

Toleration towards opinions is justified by the utilitarian consideration that not just true, but also false opinions lead to productive social learning processes.

Another Oxford philosopher, Richard Hare, claimed that disagreement surrounding embryo experiments was likely 'to go on inconclusively' without thorough utilitarian consideration of the benefits and harms that followed from a particular moral positions (1987, p. 71).

One can see serious limitations in applying a predictive theory that works nicely for utility-laden products and services to such a highly charged, identity-centric domain with so many non-utilitarian considerations.

The vote of House Resolution 106, while only a small, first step for the Armenian genocide's victims (including my paternal grandparents and uncle) and the survivors (like my father, who died last year at age 99), affirms that, for the moment anyway, the moral imperative of justice overrides other, more sordid and debased utilitarian political considerations.