Quotes Tagged With :utilitarian

When we make ethical judgments, we must go beyond a personal or sectional point of view and take into....

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting....

A week-old baby is not a rational and self-aware being, and there are many nonhuman animals whose rationality,....

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

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

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for....

Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an....

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds....

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