And the Utilitarians by substituting the word Pleasure for the word Good, even if the substitution were legitimate, have not really done much to help us in our choice.
The English utilitarians insisted upon removal of all restrictions upon individual free action beyond those necessary for securing like freedom on the part of others.
Social utilitarians would say, weigh the several interests in terms of the end of law.
But the utilitarians put the emphasis upon the first, the negative, rather than upon the second, the affirmative, part of this twofold program.
Even the most pronounced Utilitarians among ethical theorists have not ventured to go to such lengths.
He is unmistakeable in repudiating Innate Moral Distinctions, and on this point, and on this only, is he thoroughly at one with the Utilitarians of the present day.
But the utilitarians do not deny that virtue is a thing to be desired.
Of the utilitarians proper the converse is true, although here, again, there is by no means utter consistency.
It may be unnecessary here to go into the farther implications, psychological and ethical, which this preconception of the utilitarians involves.
The first government constituted on principles approaching to those which the Utilitarians hold was, we think, that of the United States.
Nevertheless, we do not think it strange that his speculations should have filled the Utilitarians with admiration.
They may as well beUtilitarians as jockeys or dandies.
It is one of the principle tenets of the Utilitarians that sentiment and eloquence serve only to impede the pursuit of truth.
The whole argument of the Utilitarians in favour of universal suffrage proceeds on the supposition that even the rudest and most uneducated men cannot, for any length of time, be deluded into acting against their own true interest.
The line of defence now taken by the Utilitarians evidently degrades Mr Mill's theory of government from the rank which, till within the last few months, was claimed for it by the whole sect.
This truism the Utilitarians proclaim with as much pride as if it were new, and as much zeal as if it were important.
There are, among the manyUtilitarians who talk about Hume, Condillac, and Hartley, a few who have read those writers.
We propose only to convince the public that there is nothing in the far-framed logic of the Utilitarians of which any plain man has reason to be afraid; that this logic will impose on no man who dares to look it in the face.
We blamed the Utilitarians for claiming the credit of a discovery, when they had merely stolen that morality, and spoiled it in the stealing.
The style which theUtilitarians admire suits only those subjects on which it is possible to reason a priori.
For a type of Conservatism he gives us Robert Southey, whose fortune it was to be fiercely abused by the Utilitarians and ridiculed by the Whigs.
The Reform Bill was accepted by the Utilitarians as an instalment of the rightful authority of the people over the conduct of public affairs, and therefore a provisional method of promoting their welfare.
The Utilitarians demurred to religion as an ultimate authority in morals, and substituted the plain unvarnished criterion of utility.
The Utilitarians desired to recast institutions for the greater happiness of all citizens, but they were averse to investing the State with autocratic powers of interference.
For his philosophy, Mr. Stephen tells us, Southey was in the habit of referring to Coleridge, whose hostility to the Utilitarians went on different and deeper grounds.
Yet the logical constructor of a new system usually finds himself driven by controversy into a discussion of ultimate ideas, though the Utilitarians refused to be forced back into metaphysics.
The inquiry also shows why, and to what extent, some of the doctrines that were scientifically propounded by the Utilitarians did initiate and lead up to an important reformation in the methods of English government.
Utilitarians who have cultivated their moral feelings, but not their sympathies nor their artistic perceptions, do fall into this mistake; and so do all other moralists under the same conditions.
And on all these points utilitarians have fully proved their case; but they might have taken the other, and, as it may be called, higher ground, with entire consistency.
Utilitarians are quite aware that there are other desirable possessions and qualities besides virtue, and are perfectly willing to allow to all of them their full worth.
Meanwhile, let utilitarians never cease to claim the morality of self-devotion as a possession which belongs by as good a right to them, as either to the Stoic or to the Transcendentalist.
Nineteenth-century utilitarians felt that the social problem could be solved by more enlightened and more reasonable behavior on the part of individuals.
But for the course of progress to run on uninterrupted and undefeated we should have to be, both in our individual and social behavior, the reasonable beings which certain nineteenth-century utilitarians mistook us for.
The Utilitarians took on themselves to praise the accuracy of the most inaccurate writer that ever lived, and gave as an instance of it a note in which, as I have shown, he makes a mistake of twenty years and more.
It is my belief that much of the notion popularly entertained of the tenets and sentiments of what are called Benthamites or Utilitarians had its origin in paradoxes thrown out by Charles Austin.
Utilitarianism is according to Croce an attempt to reduce the Ethical to the Economic form, although the utilitarians as men attempt in various ways to make a place for that distinction which as philosophers they would suppress.
Moore as with theutilitarians the good is the ultimate concept.
But whatever difficulties reasoners may find in the philosophy, there is no question that the practice of the Utilitarians was of immense value to society.
The work of the Utilitarianswas Liberal, so far as it went.
Mr Spencer's difference from the utilitarians is not such as to lead him to reject or modify their principle.
Society and institutions furthering the common good were not the work of primitive utilitarians plotting for the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Utilitarians are now, for the most part, ready to admit that, to be in earnest with their theory, they must reject Mill's attempt to distinguish qualities among pleasures.
As to art, real art, they treat it much worse than the most determined utilitarian: the utilitarians turn art into a drudge; these aesthetic folk make her into a pander and a prostitute.
The utilitarians also made good and evil, right and wrong, matters of conscious experience.
Neither theutilitarians nor any one else can exaggerate the proper office of reflection, of intelligence, in conduct.
The Utilitarians no more than the Intuitionists were opponents of the traditional--as we may call it--the Christian morality of modern civilisation.
And, in the second place, with regard to the criterion of morality, that also (they held) was not dependent on the consequences in the way of happiness and misery which the Utilitarians emphasised.
The Utilitarians no more than the Intuitionists sought to make any fundamental change in the content of right and of wrong as acknowledged by modern society.
Against the Greatest Happiness Principle I have these complaints: (1) Utilitarians from Paley to John Stuart Mill aver that their teaching is no bar to any man hoping for and striving after the happiness of the world to come.
It is impossible to state it and combat it in a form to which all Utilitarians will subscribe.
Consequences, as Utilitarians very properly point out, are either general or particular.
The utilitarians have indeed derived such potent aid from science that they have been able to stamp their efforts on the very face of the landscape.
Emotional romanticists and scientific utilitarians have thus, in spite of their surface clashes, cooperated during the past century in the dehumanizing of man.
Now the men who have acted during the past century have been the men of science and the utilitarians who have been turning to account the discoveries of science.
It is not unnatural, therefore, that the utilitarians should turn to Darwinism and other such kindred systems for the solution of their difficulties.
With reference to this Lord Macaulay says, "We blamed the utilitarians for claiming the credit of a discovery, when they had merely stolen that morality (the morality of the gospel) and spoiled it in the stealing.
There was a way in which the argument was formerly stated by utilitarians which was much more plausible, but which I observe is now seldom if ever resorted to by the modern exponents of this theory.
And this meanness of the Utilitarians had gone very far--infecting many finer minds who had fought the Utilitarians.
With every allowance for aliens and eccentrics and all the accidents that must always eat the edges of any systematic circumference, it may still be said that the Utilitarians held the fort.
Clear, logical, and persuasive, theUtilitarians seemed likely to command success in Parliament, in the pulpit, and in the press.
At the same time it must be acknowledged that there is a broad difference between the refined hedonism of the utilitarians we have last noticed, and the writings of Hobbes, of Mandeville, or of Paley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "utilitarians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
