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Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics holding that the proper course of action is the one that maximizes utility, usually defined as maximizing total benefit and reducing suffering or the negatives. Classical utilitarianism`s two most influential contributors are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. It is now generally taken to be a form....
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[book] John Stuart Mill`s book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser`s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill`s lifetime with minor additions and...
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belief that utility of actions determines moral value
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• (n.) The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness. • (n.) The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. • (n.) The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or tha...
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(from the article `Mill, John Stuart`) ...It has been remarked how Mill combined enthusiasm for democratic government with pessimism as to what democracy was likely to do; practically ... ...leader of the utilitarians and the most influential British thinker of the 19th century, had some sympathy for the view that Bentham`s position ......
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in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart ... [25 related articles]
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A moral philosophy, generally operating on the principle that the utility (happiness or satisfaction) of different people can not only be measured but also meaningfully summed over people and that utility comparisons between people are meaningful. That makes it possible to achieve a well-defined societal optimum in allocations, production, and othe...
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Philosophical theory of ethics outlined by the philosopher Jeremy
Bentham and developed by John Stuart Mill. According...
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n] - doctrine that the useful is the good
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noun doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number
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(a) Traditionally understood as the view that the right act is the act which, of all those open to the agent, will actually or probably produce the greatest amount of pleasure or happiness in the world at large (this is the so called Principle of Utility). This view has been opposed to intuitionism in the traditional sense in a long and well-known....
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Philosophical theory of ethics outlined by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and developed by John Stuart Mill. According to utilitarianism, an action is morally right if it has consequences that lead to happiness, and wrong if it brings about the reverse. Thus society should aim for the greatest happiness of the greatest number
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The doctrine that acts are right solely in so far as their consequences maximise the general happiness (in some versions: maximise the general pleasure; in some versions: maximise the general welfare). It is controversial whether the general happiness must be interpreted as the happiness of the majority.
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Judging actions by their consequences and the pleasure derived from them. The goal being the greatest amount of happiness for the most people.
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the ethical doctrine that virtue is based on utility, and that conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons.
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