Word: utilitarian
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...dispassionate reason--the attitude engrained in students who have taken moral reasoning courses--but our arguments no doubt were perceived as left-liberal moralism--the sloppy idealism of youth. Some of the conservative members of the Committee know only the language of cost-benefit analysis. In their strictly utilitarian calculations secure profits often weighed equally with considerations of simple justice. Other conservative members favored casting the issue in terms of revolution versus gradual change. Debates on the ACSR, then, often became fruitless clashes between incompatible moral jargons...
...waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way," Gund says. "The reason for some of the detail is to make if not look like a a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...
Japan learned that lesson, in reverse, not once but twice. After the Meiji Restoration, the new imperial government sent study missions to the U.S., France and Prussia, then tried to set up a national education system based on Western liberal utilitarian thought. The experiment was short-lived. Much the same thing happened after the U.S. occupation. The American-imposed structure of grade school, junior high and high school was retained, along with coeducation and compulsory attendance until age 15. But many of the other...
...dispassionate reason--the attitude engrained in students who have taken moral reasoning courses--but our arguments no doubt were perceived as left-liberal moralism, the sloppy idealism of youth. Some of the conservative members of the Committee knew only the language of cost-benefit analysis. In their strictly utilitarian calculations secure profits often weighed equally with considerations of simple justice. Other conservative members favored casting the issue in terms of revolution versus gradual change. Debates on the ACSR, then, often became fruitless clashes between incompatible moral jargons...
...because it presents much more than a quirky theory of time. The dialogue is always vibrant, regardless of the date, and the characters are vividly drawn people with distinct, realistic personalities. All one could have asked for from the script is a longer third act: Priestley is a bit utilitarian, presenting episodes that neatly explain how the Conways' individual fortunes began their downward spiral, but are thin on the rich incidental action he writes so well...