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1789

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Jeremy Bentham

Grounds all morals and law in the single principle of utility, and proposes a felicific calculus for weighing the pleasure and pain an act produces.

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Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.

UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill, 1863Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, and Mill defends this against the charge that pleasure is too base a standard by distinguishing higher from lower pleasures.

Filed under Ethics & Moral Philosophy in Philosophy.