10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUTILITARIANISM»
Discover the use of
futilitarianism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
futilitarianism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed: The Crises ...
In other words, they are conditionally loved or, simply stated, they are just used,
taken advantage of. The age of futilitarianism For most of human existence,
almost everyone everywhere has been living in poverty. Then the Industrial
Revolution ...
2
Morality, Mortality: Rights, Duties, and Status
18 Without endorsing the permissibility of violating such rights for the sake of
maximizing utility, I suggested that violating a specified constraining right for the
sake of comparable rights is a form of "futilitarianism." What of a nonspecified
right?
3
Being the Best You Can Be: A Guide on Personal Development ...
Futilitarianism has no place in your thinking Futilitarianism is the philosophy that
all human striving is futile; it is no philosophy for a strategic leader. The leader is
essentially the affirmer, the doer and the creator. He or. 179 Getting things done.
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity; and yet there is the Heilige Danleesgesang.2 One
constantly notices this juxtaposition of futilitarianism and a passionate pity, of
disgusted accidie3 and a rapturous recognition of that which for a moment
enables ...
Correspondence Intended tor this department should be addressed America is
suffering from futilitarianism. This asserts /\ itself in a number of ways. People say
"no" from force of habit. Vestries and voters' assemblies are much more likely to ...
6
A health law reader: an interdisciplinary approach
On this view, which I have decided to call "futilitarianism," physicians need not
offer costly, futile care to patients or their families, nor even accede to overt
demands for it. There is no significant benefit for the patient, it serves no valid
medical ...
John H. Robinson, Roberta M. Berry, Kevin McDonnell, 1998
7
The Literature of Terror: Volume 2: The Modern Gothic
Philosophically, this combination of anxieties 'reduced Lovecraft to total stasis:
the oddly appropriate — in its very distastefulness — term which de Camp uses is
'futilitarianism', by which he means to denote Lovecraft's self-defensive ...
I have said that futilitarianism is an extension of the philosophy of the Ivory Tower
because no writer of that group pretended that art was futile; it is the men of
action who do that. Behind the concept of futility is a passionate belief in art,
coupled ...
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The Restitution of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against ...
The American Humanists Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt, and one of their
students and friends, T. S. Eliot, were also making this case in the 1930s against
what Leavis called "Techno-Benthamism" and what Lewis called "futilitarianism.
Michael D. Aeschliman, 1998
10
Essays in Legal Philosophy
... misplaced egalitarianism : 'One man's view is equal to that of any other' ;
deterministic 'futilitarianism' : 'We can't help choosing as we do, so rationality can
have no role; deductivism: 'No argument is valid unless deductively conclusive'.
