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- noun Plural form of
utilitarian .
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Examples
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The underlying argument of all utilitarians is the definition of happiness as a surplus of pleasure over pain.
Deepak Chopra: Beyond Belief: Sam Harris Imagines a "Moral Landscape" Deepak Chopra 2010
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The mystery for utilitarians is to find computations of involving their peculiar philosophic conception of utility.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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The mystery for utilitarians is to find computations of involving their peculiar philosophic conception of utility.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex) 2006
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Most economists still view the human economic actors as Benthamite utilitarians from about 1840.
Robert Teitelman: Andersen and DeLong Review the Past Robert Teitelman 2011
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People have tried in the past, back to the utilitarians, with "not happy" results.
Surveys Vs. Revealed Preference, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So why not just give up the libertarian title and call ourselves utilitarians?
Empiricism and Dogma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Since America's (relatively) high economic freedom is dependent on the attitudes of its electorate, utilitarians have a powerful reasons to resist the addition of new citizens opposed to its institutions.
For Open Borders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Most economists still view the human economic actors as Benthamite utilitarians from about 1840.
Robert Teitelman: Andersen and DeLong Review the Past Robert Teitelman 2011
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Of course, declaring ourselves all utilitarians won't look good with either the natural rights crowd or the current mainstream of moral philosophy which is mired in deontological intuition-pumping.
Empiricism and Dogma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We can say it even if we are non-absolutitst rule utilitarians.
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