Sentence examples for utilitarian explanations from inspiring English sources
After the Critique of Judgment, a return to hedonistic and utilitarian explanations of art and beauty could (and did) take place only through ignorance of Kant's demonstrations.
Utilitarian explanations for the choices of totems—"good to eat," "useful," etc. do not fit the ethnographic data, and to say that the totems are chosen because they have some special mystical significance is merely to rephrase the problem, without identifying why only certain items have mystical significance.
Xunzi thus presents a believable utilitarian explanation for the creation of social institutions.
The act utilitarian explanation for promissory obligations is that these obligations arise from the negative consequences that attend the breaking of promises, where these negative consequences are, at least in part, created by the effects of the promise on the promisee, specifically, the creation in the promisee of the expectation that the promiser will keep her promise.
While her prose can be charming, it's often utilitarian or clunky, as in this explanation of her courtship with future husband Almanzo: "After all we had been through blizzards, near-murder and danger of death together and those things do create a 'tie that binds,' more or less".
For the utilitarian may simply hold that the best explanation for the rationality of a given person incurring some cost for herself in order to avoid some greater cost for herself is the unrestricted rationality of minimizing net costs (or maximizing net benefits).
This is a very controversial explanation, but our point is simply that if the main premise of this explanation (a kind of pluralism involving utilitarian reasons and deontological reasons) is true then it very plausibly is a necessary truth.
Broader explanations pointing at the dominance of elites or the utilitarian approaches embedded in planning cultures should be tested within specific urban contexts.
As disgust is an unreasoned aversion that requires no further explanation, in the sense that it is cognitively perplexing, wider utilitarian reasoning about the pros and cons of a technology - such as the paedoscan - appears impossible (Tetlock 2000).
This is a utilitarian vocabulary.
