utilitarianism sentence examples

• An agent can be told by utilitarianism to do something terrible in order to avoid something even worse, as jim and george are.
• This shift of emphasis was originally the work of economists looking for a way of making utilitarianism operational.
• Whether spencer actually envisioned his liberal utilitarianism this way is unclear.
• Why bother with substitute sources of stand-in obligation when, thanks to having become moral saints, act utilitarianism will fortunately always do?
• Spencer as much as mill, then, advocates indirect utilitarianism by featuring robust moral rights.
• Benthamite utilitarianism does involve a commitment to individual welfare, but not to personal freedom.
• Act and rule utilitarianism bentham tended to deal with the consequences of acts.
• Utilitarians will claim that an ideal public should at least consider utilitarianism a plausible doctrine.
• Such reasoning supports, i then argue, conclusions about value that support an account of the concept broadly consistent with classical utilitarianism.
• Apparently it even has a name: preference utilitarianism.
• Beginning particularly with john stuart mill, bourgeois science differentiated itself into an ethics called utilitarianism and a science called economics.
• Spencer as much as mill, then, advocates indirect utilitarianism by featuring robust moral rights.
• Those who perceived a narrow utilitarianism as dominant took the opposite view.

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