A section on utilitarian pottery is cleverly counterpointed by one titled "Utility Trumped," showing works that play with the notion of use but are not really meant for such mundane purposes.
Both are a fine, utilitarian selection.
Objects in the status and power section of the show are both overtly utilitarian -- finely crafted cups, bowls, spoons, headrests and axes -- and symbols of the status of their owners.
In A Theory of Justice, Rawls uses utilitarianism as the main theory for comparison with his own, and hence he offers a number of arguments in response to this utilitarian objection, some of which are outlined in the section on Welfare-Based Principles. Welfare-Based Principles
In its opening sections, Alien rattles, seemingly aimlessly, around a utilitarian space freighter (the Nostromo) and introduces us to its bickering seven-member crew, John Hurt and Ian Holm among them.
Raskolnikov's inner conflict in the opening section of the novel results in a utilitarian-altruistic justification for the proposed crime: why not kill a wretched and "useless" old moneylender to alleviate the human misery?
The courts, they say, have treated the section of the Constitution that concerns intellectual property rights as utilitarian doctrine subject to Congressional interpretation.
The general strategy can also be applied to the structural question: for example, Section 1.2 noted that weak supervenience is compatible with the idea that a utilitarian ethical principle is a fundamental truth in some possible worlds, but is false in others.
Of special note here is Rawls' 1955 paper Two Concepts of Rules, which advanced a rule-utilitarian defense of promissory obligations and helped to focus the debate on promising (see section 6.1 below).
In contrast to the classical Confucian position which had been formulated in the Discourse on proper names (see section 1.2) and follows the presumption that names imply the essence of realities, this utilitarian position derived from their awareness of the relativity of comprehension.
