Sentence examples for utilitarian standards from inspiring English sources
Officials at New York City's Department of Sanitation are also the first to admit that by pure utilitarian standards -- taking into account only the taxpayers' money with no thought for the environment -- recycling is inefficient.
Today, the concept of quality has long passed the traditional utilitarian standards and measures.
Hence the Mohists propose to judge practices not by whether they conform to the traditional rituals of a revered lost dynasty, but by utilitarian standards, such as whether they materially benefit society.
"There is no doubt that Ethernet/IP-based networks are the emerging trend in modern substation communications [17]." Following the success and almost universal adoption of Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n) on the local area network (LAN), it became clear to equipment vendors and standards groups that demand existed for similarly flexible and utilitarian standards over greater distances.
In his central exposition of the utilitarian standard in Chapter II, Mill commits himself to act utilitarianism in multiple passages.
Both dilemmas present you with the option of sacrificing one life to save five, and so, by the utilitarian standard of what would result in the greatest good for the greatest number, the two dilemmas are morally equivalent.
He says that neither laypersons nor philosophers can articulate a relevant distinction, because each instance satisfies the utilitarian standard of achieving the greatest good for the greatest number and that the scenarios are morally equivalent.
The question that concerns us here is what kind of utilitarian standard Mill endorses.
The early Mohists advocated using a utilitarian standard to determine both the correct application of words to actions and the choice of word order in social guiding discourse.
He supported his use of a utilitarian standard to evaluate social daos on grounds of the impartiality and constancy of the benefit-harm distinction.
This utilitarian standard was justified by appeal to the intention of Heaven (Tian), a god-like entity that the Mohists argued is committed impartially to the benefit of all.
