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This book contains a comprehensive overview of utilitarianism, which is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its utility in providing happiness or pleasure as summed among all sentient beings. The most influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism is considered to be a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its outcome. Read about the predecessors of utilitarianism and its key concepts including eudaimonia, felicific calculus, utility, and much more.
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