Quotes Tagged With :utilitarian

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth....

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should....

First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance,....

My suggestion, then, is that we accord the fetus no higher moral status than we give to a nonhuman animal....

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's....

Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their....

In the absence of any general inference from ‘A is a potential X’ to ‘A has the rights of an X’,....

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple....

The merely conscious being does not have a preference for continued life. Perhaps while having a pleasurable....