Quotes Tagged With :utilitarianism

I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still....

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

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

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

It is interesting, in this context, to think again of our earlier argument that membership of the species....

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

What would yield the greater benefit to mankind: if I spent the afternoon taking stock in my dispensary,....

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

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can....

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.