Sentence examples for utilitarian good from inspiring English sources

CO: They're altruistic but they're also based on the premise that life is a utilitarian good, that it's only worthwhile if you're not a burden to other people.

Moral good, says Rosmini, is found when the will adheres to what is good according to the order of being; eudemonological or utilitarian good is what is desired as good for the individual, without reference to what is good in itself.

Its new space is lighter and airier than its former Echo Park location, and it gives Iko Iko's proprietors, Kristin Dickson and Shin Okuda, more room to showcase the charming utilitarian goods that have garnered the shop something of a cult following in Los Angeles.

Even with Wal-Mart's enormous inventory, it is focused on utilitarian goods at low prices.

Productive differentiation is also present, indicating a very small degree of economic interdependence between households involving the utilitarian goods of daily life.

Rolling Stone gave the album 3½ out of 5 stars and wrote that Songz "takes cues from R. Kelly, slyly mocking the self-parodying excesses of boudoir R&B while supplying the utilitarian goods: the sumptuous vocal harmonies and sultry beats upon which long nights beneath ceiling mirrors depend".

It would provide a utilitarian motive for good behaviour, but that was not what he wanted.

There was a good utilitarian reason for the state to encourage all women to work, not just those on benefits.

It's just a good utilitarian notebook messenger bag.

We generally call these "white lies" and they work when deployed with an honest, utilitarian intention – i.e. "the greater good".

For utilitarian philosophers, pleasure is good as long as it is not outweighed by the harm it causes, Mr. Westacott says.