Utilitarian

Examples of Utilitarian in the following topics:

• Market Exchange and Efficiency

  • Under these conditions, from a utilitarian perspective, no one would rationally engage in a voluntary exchange if it made them worse off.
  • Voluntary markets of goods with nonattenuated property rights are consistent with the Utilitarian Ethic and Pareto Efficiency.

• What Does Art Do?

  • However, the term is incredibly broad and is broken up into numerous sub-categories that lead to utilitarian, decorative, therapeutic, communicative, and intellectual ends.
  • The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects, such as a glass or a chair, transforming them from a mere utilitarian object to something aesthetically beautiful.
  • Examine the communication, utilitarian, aesthetic, therapeutic, and intellectual purposes of art

• Using Art

  • The decorative arts are widely used and utilitarian by their very nature.
  • Typically, their purposes are obvious, and their aesthetic value is often secondary to their utilitarian function.
  • While these art objects often have no specific utilitarian purpose, anthropologists have proven they hold very specific cultural importance.

• Criteria to Evaluate Ends and Means

  • Modern, neoclassical economics is often perceived as a study of efficiency with in the context of a very specific ethical system: "utilitarianism

• Ethical Issues Within a Business

  • These perspectives are utilitarian, deontological, virtuous, and communitarian approaches.
  • Perhaps the cleanest and simplest perspective on ethical behavior, a utilitarian will always ask one question: what is the ideal outcome for the highest number of people?
  • Kant disliked the concept of utilitarianism for one simple reason: the ends should not justify the means.

• The Act of Creating a Rule: Principled Decisions

  • (The distinction between the logic of $A \rightarrow X+Y$ and $R \rightarrow X+Y$ is analogous to that made by some philosophers between "act utilitarianism" and "rule utilitarianism". )

• Ethical Conflicts

  • Utilitarianism: A utilitarian approach seeks to provide the most good or do the least harm.

• How Attitude Influences Behavior

  • Utilitarian: Utilitarian refers to an individual's attitude as derived from self or community interest.

• Jade in Neolithic China

  • During Neolithic times, the key known sources of nephrite jade in China for utilitarian and ceremonial items were the now depleted deposits in the Ningshao area in the Yangtze River Delta (during the Liangzhu culture, 3400–2250 BCE) and in an area of the Liaoning province in Inner Mongolia (during the Hongshan culture, 4700–2200 BCE).
  • Jade was used to create many utilitarian and ceremonial objects, ranging from indoor decorative items to jade burial suits, reflecting the ancient Chinese belief that jades would confer immortality or prolong life and prevent decay.

• Inuit Art

  • Thule art had a definite Alaskan influence and included utilitarian objects such as combs, buttons, needle cases, cooking pots, ornate spears, and harpoons.
  • They were simply meant to make utilitarian objects look appealing.
  • Non-utilitarian objects were also carved in miniature so that they could be carried or worn, such as dance masks, amulets, fetish figures, and intricate combs and figures which were used to tell legends and objectify their mythology and oral history.