Crossword-Solution: UTILITARIANISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Utilitarianism | n. | The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. |
| Utilitarianism | n. | The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe. |
| Utilitarianism | n. | The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness. |
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| doctrine that the useful is the good | 1 answer |
| the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | 1 answer |
| MORAL theory, form of | 2 answers |
| humanism | 19 answers |
| solicitude | 42 answers |
| expedience | 63 answers |
| Dedication | 71 answers |
| humanity | 78 answers |
| Good __ | 110 answers |
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Sentences with UTILITARIANISM (5)
She had not, indeed, surrendered her money; in that there would have been a romantic or monkish abandon quite alien to her masterful utilitarianism.
That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.
Those few apples—or, at all events, the remembrance of apples in bygone years—are the atonement which utilitarianism inexorably demands for the privilege of lengthened life.
But knockers may be muffled for other purposes than those of mere utilitarianism, as, in the present instance, was clearly shown.
Utilitarianism is the true philosophy, for this confines us to the world where we are born to labor, and enables us to make acquisitions which promote our comfort and ease.
Quotes with UTILITARIANISM (3)
Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of a narrowly or mundanely functional or efficient option. No such limited horizon confined the thought and character of the great English-language utilitarian philosophers, whose influence ran its course from the period just before the French Revolution through the Victorian era. Happiness, for them, was more of a cosmic calling, the path t…
... the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.
There is danger in speaking so generally about "liberalism," a danger that has often plagued feminist debates. "Liberalism" is not a single position but a family of positions; Kantian liberalism is profoundly different from classical Utilitarian liberalism, and both of these from the Utilitarianism currently dominant in neoclassical economics.