utilitarian
adjective
pertaining to or consisting in utility.
utilitarians
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pluralof utilitarian.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For standard utilitarians, people are nothing more than the "containers" or "vessels" of value.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022
Why did Ross think classic utilitarians and deontologists oversimplified morality?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Rule utilitarians think this list of rules can be modified as needed by reexamining each one through application of the greatest happiness principle.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
According to utilitarians, rules are made to be broken, when you make people happier by breaking them.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020
Social utilitarians would say, weigh the several interests in terms of the end of law.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
