Quotes Tagged With :utilitarianism

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

We have examined a number of ethical issues. We have seen that many accepted practices are open to serious....

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

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

The capacity for suffering – or more strictly, for suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness – is not....

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

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

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

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

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