“In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
“As a philosophy, utilitarianism is the argument you can objectively determine what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism." Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Since every country stands in numerous and various relations with the other countries of the world, and many, our own among the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed there is a strong general cases, founded on the legitimacy of a considerable degree of egoism and self-referential altruism, and connected… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Once we realise that utilitarianism comes with the idea of blameworthy rightdoing (such as when you push a big man onto the… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
According to classical utilitarianism, the only intrinsic good is happiness; the only intrinsic bad is pain. That implies no intrinsic value in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
