Sentence examples for utilitarian criteria from inspiring English sources
On the one hand, given recent advances in nuclear technology, safety and waste disposal, it would seem that (barring more Chernobyls) expanding nuclear would still satisfy Utilitarian criteria.
In this regard, DCD is a very creative interpretation of the DDR using utilitarian criteria.
Streat argues compellingly that the issue of irreversibility is a practical impossibility to determine, and that because of this, utilitarian criteria should prevail in determining when death is pronounced and when organs may be retrieved.
To do otherwise is to subordinate efficiency to a utilitarian criterion or to civil rights.
Clearly, in his political theoretical work, Sidgwick admittedly simply assumed the utilitarian criterion as the normative bottom line, rather than arguing for it against rational egoism.
The priority of the third standard is a striking feature of the Mohist theory, for it entails that in at least some circumstances, they advocate applying a utilitarian criterion to resolve not only normative questions but descriptive ones as well.
Furthermore, a utilitarian criterion of right implies that it would not be morally right to use the principle of utility as a decision procedure in cases where it would not maximize utility to try to calculate utilities before acting.
Like moral principles, the utilitarian standard of approval sets up a general standpoint for the appraisal of conduct, and revision of ends in light of such appraisal, rather than a fixed criterion that can be mechanically applied (E 237 47).
A standard utilitarian approach is considered.
Second, even if we consider only this particular type of moral context, serotonin disposes people to make judgments that are less utilitarian only if by utilitarianism we mean a very simple version of Act Utilitarianism, understood not only as a criterion of rightness but also as an explicit decision procedure.
As a way to measure social welfare, we consider two criteria: the total tax income and the utilitarian social welfare function.
