Sentence examples for utilitarian standpoint from inspiring English sources
He goes on to explain the benefits of female emancipation from the utilitarian standpoint.
"It may even be, as you say, a democratising thing, and from a utilitarian standpoint, it might, in this respect, be a positive development.
They do not view it from a narrowly utilitarian standpoint, in terms of what it can deliver, let alone as the devil incarnate in the manner of the American Tea Party.
Instead of approaching voice chat from the more utilitarian standpoint of a mobile push-to-talk type experience as Voxer does, Zello's focus is on social, voice-enabled communities.
Finally, specifically from a utilitarian standpoint, why honor the requirement on occasions when it seems to set back collective health, for example, when we cannot develop a new drug that would help many, because no one is altruistic enough to consent to being a test subject?
Playford was criticised for seeing roads only from an engineering and utilitarian standpoint and neglecting the social and community effects of such building.
Flavor, it turns out, has relatively little to do with our physical palates, which are more utilitarian: From an evolutionary standpoint, they tell us whether we ought to swallow or spit out food.
The utilitarian injunction to see things from the impartial standpoint is, if it means anything, an injunction to adopt the "absolute conception" of the world (1978 65 677).
Like moral principles, the utilitarian standard of approval sets up a general standpoint for the appraisal of conduct, and revision of ends in light of such appraisal, rather than a fixed criterion that can be mechanically applied (E 237 47).
From a neurological standpoint.
