Sentence examples for utilitarian imperatives from inspiring English sources

Like much science fiction "Moon" is a meditation on the conflict between the streamlining tendencies of technological progress and the stubborn persistence of feelings and desires that can't be tamed by utilitarian imperatives.

It basically connects homeostatic imperatives with classical (utilitarian and control theoretic) formulations of adaptive behaviour.

Nevertheless, Bolzano refused to accept the Categorical Imperative strictly and replaced it with the utilitarian principle of "the advancement of the general welfare", as he proudly reports in his autobiography (Bolzano 1836, 23).

Going forward, it is imperative that future partnerships are built around utilitarian principles and also adhere to the dictates of agreements, whether they are 'soft' or standard contracts.

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.

That imperative was reflected also in the contributions by positivists to ethics and moral philosophy, which were generally utilitarian to the extent that something like "the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" was their ethical maxim.

If utilitarian.

The first is utilitarian.

"It's very utilitarian.

This is a utilitarian vocabulary.

Clothing, too, was utilitarian.