Utilisme by Jeremy Bentham
A systematic defense of the principle that actions and laws are morally right insofar as they promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number, framing pleasure and pain as the measurable standards for moral evaluation and proposing a practical 'felicific' calculus (intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, extent) to weigh consequences; it rejects appeals to innate natural rights in favor of reforming laws and institutions to maximize general welfare, using this consequentialist criterion to assess punishment, legislation, and public policy.
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