Quotes About Utilitarianism

I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.

Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved,

Wittgenstein has created a void into which neo-Kantianism, existentialism, utilitarianism have made haste to enter.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Could the two constructs – psychopathy and utilitarianism – possibly be linked? Bartels and Pizarro wondered. The answer was a resounding yes. Their analysis revealed a significant correlation between a utilitarian approach to the trolley problem (push the fat guy off the bridge) and a predominantly psychopathic personality style.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

O nosso coração é tão vacilante e a vida humana um tal mistério, que mesmo num assassinato cívico, num assassinato libertador, se os há, o remorso de ter ferido um homem excede o prazer de ter sido útil ao género humano.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Worshipping technique at the expense of encounter involves making man not only a mere thing, but also a mere means to an end.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

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

CONCERNED AS HE is that the usable be put to use, that there be no waste, still there is nothing utilitarian or mechanistic about Mr. Lapp's farm—or his mind. His aim, it seems, is not that the place should be put to the fullest use, but that it should have the most abundant life.

The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may so say) of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.

The means of many out way the means of the few or one.

There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up.

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.