The principle of utility, or, as it is also called, the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle, states that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
— Jeremy Bentham Early Modern

Utilitarianism founder

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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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1789

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37168/37168-h/37168-h.htm

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