[Grammar] Capitals: utilitarian or Utilitarian?

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Ulysses

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When I use the word 'utilitarian', when should I capitalize it?
 

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Not unless it's a the beginning of a sentence. Why would you?

Could you mean "Utopian?"
 

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I'm not sure if capitalization means the idea of Utilitarian or a group of people of adhere to utilitarianism.

I think Communists and communist might be the same thing but I'm not sure?
 

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It's in lower case in most dictionaries, and it's likely that a true utilitarian would question the value of using title case. ;-)
 

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It's in lower case in most dictionaries, and it's likely that a true utilitarian would question the value of using title case. ;-)

Ok I thought names (This is a name of a school of thought) would be capitalized.
 
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