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The Principle of Utility
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The principle of utility: an action is right in proportion as it tends to promote happiness for everyone affected, wrong as it tends to produce the reverse.
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A council choosing between a clinic and a stadium runs the principle: count every resident's gain and loss, and build whichever sums higher.
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- 153Hedonism About Happiness
- 155Bentham's Calculus
- 156Everybody Counts for One
- 163Act Utilitarianism
- 164Rule Utilitarianism
- 165The Ignorance Objection
- 171The Justice Objection
- 172The Rights Objection
- 173The Backward-Looking-Reasons Objection
- 174The Too-Demanding Objection
- 175The Partiality Objection
- 185Running a Utility Audit
- 191The Transplant Surgeon
- 214The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment
- 346The Argument from Mercy
- 406The Last Ventilator
- 411The Toolkit