He brought in Utilitarian philosophy in order to define theories of public opinion.

The sophisticated Utilitarian theories on the other hand do recommend what appears to be an entirely selfless moral agent.

Utilitarian bioethics is based on the premise that the distribution of resources is a zero-sum game, and therefore medical decisions should logically be made on the basis of each person's total future productive value and happiness, their chance of survival from the present, and the resources required for treatment.

Utilitarian: A passion to gain a return on all investments involving time, money and resources.

Utilitarian liberationists, on the other hand, do not believe that animals possess moral rights, but argue, on utilitarian grounds — utilitarianism in its simplest form advocating that we base moral decisions on the greatest happiness of the greatest number — that, because animals have the ability to suffer, their suffering must be taken into account in any moral philosophy.

This can diverge from the Utilitarian goal of maximising utility because it does not consider the distribution of goods between people.

Utilitarian versions are used for measuring.

::“ Utilitarian ethics makes all of us members of the same moral community.

A further criticism of the Utilitarian formula ‘ Maximize pleasure ’ is that it assumes a continuous pleasure-pain scale which allows us to treat degrees of pain as negative degrees of pleasure.

The former view is the one adopted by Bentham and Mill, and ( I believe ) by the Utilitarian school generally: and is obviously most in accordance with the universality that is characteristic of their principle ... it seems arbitrary and unreasonable to exclude from the end, as so conceived, any pleasure of any sentient being.

More Utilitarian schools of conservation seek a proper valuation of local and global impacts of human activity upon nature in their effect upon human well being, now and to our posterity.

In the United States of America, the year 1864 saw the publication of two books which laid the foundation for Romantic and Utilitarian conservation traditions in America.

Thus the Christian individualism of the Quakers, that each person shares the " inner light " and the Arminianism of the Evangelicals were both differently based from the Lockean or Kantian individualism of a Philosophe or a Utilitarian, but all recognized the equal moral significance of the human person and that the disregard of it was wrong.

We can divide ethnicity into two distinct areas, as they relate to ethnoconvergence: Utilitarian traits, and traditional customs.

Meanwhile, Utilitarian philosophers have supported lies which achieve good outcomes — white lies.

Though not a member of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarian Society ( 1822 – 1823 ), he took a great interest in a society for reading and discussion, which met from 1823 onwards in a room at the bank before business hours, twice a week.

Damien Keown devotes a great deal of his work to debunking claims that Buddhism is Utilitarian in nature.

Utilitarian bioethics is a branch of utilitarian ethics and bioethics that recommends directing medical resources where they will have most long-term effect for good.

Utilitarian policies prioritize scientific projects that significantly reduce suffering for larger numbers of people.

Utilitarian research often pursues incremental improvements rather than dramatic advancements in knowledge, or break-through solutions, which are more commercially viable.

In a sense, women ’ s liberation will lead to the greatest good for the greatest amount of people thereby supporting a Utilitarian mindset.

Utilitarian character of both the body of building and its interior goes in accord with subtly adorned outer façades covered with wide strips and plates in colour of inox, airy, big window panes and sliding, glass doors.

" Utilitarian and evangelical-inspired social reform ", including the abolition of sati and the legalisation of widow remarriage were considered by many — especially the British themselves — to have caused suspicion that Indian religious traditions were being " interfered with ", with the ultimate aim of conversion.

Utilitarian buildings often use corrugated galvanized steel sheet siding or cladding, which often has a coloured vinyl finish.

Theoretical Utilitarian ethics hold that promotion of general social welfare is the ultimate goal for the individual and society in general: " the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.

Dr. Bonnor begins with a discussion of the relativistic theories of the universe, based on the general theory of relativity.

A form of reciprocity where some individuals seem to spend more resources on cooperating and punishing than would be most beneficial as predicted by several established theories of altruism.

Wittowsky argues that not enough critics have taken the time to focus directly on the mercantilism and theories of labor in 18th century England.

These theories were built on a coherent building of argument from assumed or accepted beginnings.

The Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools later developed theories on how atoms combined into more complex objects.

He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as " penetrability ", " suction and pressure " and " zig-zag-and-swirl " were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Lane and Alcott collaborated on a major expansion of their educational theories into a Utopian society.

The most detailed discussion of his theories on education is in an essay, " Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction ".

To Popper, science does not rely on induction, instead scientific investigations are inherently attempts to falsify existing theories through novel tests.

In all his theoretical works, in order to communicate his theories in the German language, rather than Latin, Dürer used graphic expressions based on a vernacular, craftsmen's language.

Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.

* Jürgen Schmidhuber: Papers on algorithmic theories of everything and the Anthropic Principle's lack of predictive power.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

has argued that in this report Whorf's linguistic theories exist in a condensed form and that it was mainly through this report that Whorf exerted influence on the discipline of descriptive linguistics.

There are currently three etymological theories of the name Euskara that are taken seriously by linguists and Vasconists which are discussed in detail on the Basque people page.

The success of this legend of origins was partly due to theories in anthropology, which were based on a tribal paradigm.

The origin of the term is uncertain, and many researchers have different theories on how the word entered the English vocabulary.

However, both theories imply that there was some kind of Persian activity which occurred on or about the fifth day which ultimately triggered the battle.

Charles Berlitz, author of various books on anomalous phenomena, lists several theories attributing the losses in the Triangle to anomalous or unexplained forces.

Conspiracy theories are based on the notion that complex plots are put into motion by powerful hidden forces.

In an essay on conspiracy theories originating in the Middle East, Daniel Pipes notes that " ive assumptions distinguish the conspiracy theorist from more conventional patterns of thought: appearances deceive ; conspiracies drive history ; nothing is haphazard ; the enemy always gains ; power, fame, money, and sex account for all.

This is a common scenario in conspiracy theories that focus on the alleged machinations of Jews, Freemasons, or the Catholic Church, as well as theories centered on Communism or international capitalists.