It discusses why the arts, from an instrumental and utilitarian point of view, matter in business and defines the conceptual background explaining how the arts can be adopted by organizations for management purposes.
But surely from a utilitarian point of view, such psychological arguments are moral arguments.
From a utilitarian point of view, this is hard to argue with, and during the 1970s a lot of people argued for it.
From a utilitarian point of view, however, the foregoing argument for the enactment of some form of social minimum is not conclusive.
"From a utilitarian point of view, these situations are identical," says psychologist Jon Haidt of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; "they differ only in that one of them feels wrong".
12. Sidgwick (1874, 485) ("A universal refusal to propagate the human species would be the greatest of conceivable crimes from a Utilitarian point of view.
In other words, it will be best even from the utilitarian point of view if no one is actually a utilitarian; which means that, at best, "utilitarianism's fate is to usher itself from the scene" (UFA: 134).) On the issue of impartiality, it will no doubt be objected that Williams overstates his case.
Such thinking embodies the utilitarian point of view that harm to one person may be justified by a larger benefit to someone else (Harris 2003).
That is the point of art.
When you live on a dirt road 150 miles from the nearest city, he points out, improvisation becomes a necessity — and also, in some ways, a utilitarian form of art.
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.
