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“[The utilitarian standard] is not the agent's own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness altogether; and if it may possibly be doubted whether a noble character is always the happier for its nobleness, there can be no doubt that it makes other people happier, and that the world in general is immensely a gainer by it.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
“Society between equals can only exist on the understanding that the interests of all are to be regarded equally.”
― Utilitarianism: and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment
― Utilitarianism: and the 1868 Speech on Capital Punishment
“Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—that there is not time, previous to action, for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness. This is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by Christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
Darius’s 2024 Year in Books
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