In the last few decades, however, an alternative to utilitarian and Kantian ethics has emerged, one that harks back to the ancient philosophers.

By the tenets of utilitarian ethics, only those useful to the state or to society had a legitimate claim on life.

In the finest spirit of utilitarian ethics, he had put his faults to good use for humanity and had behaved responsibly.

Wilde believed that the artist should hold forth higher ideals, and that pleasure and beauty would replace utilitarian ethics.

Laying down a particular conception of "fairness"; by, for example, specifying that all hard cases were to be decided "by applying the utilitarian ethics of Jeremy Bentham".

Utilitarian bioethics is a branch of utilitarian ethics and bioethics that recommends directing medical resources where they will have most long-term effect for good.

Paley is also remembered for his contributions to the philosophy of religion, utilitarian ethics and Christian apologetics.

Harsanyi's began researching on utilitarian ethics while at Brisbane.

Also a defender of animal rights, Sprigge espoused a broadly utilitarian ethics (which he defended in The Rational Foundation of Ethics).