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Definition of Utiliterianism
Utilitarianism, the theory which makes happiness the end of life and
the test of virtue, and maintains that "actions are right in proportion
as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong as they tend to produce the
reverse," a theory characterised by Carlyle, who is never weary of
denouncing it, as "reducing the infinite celestial soul of man to a kind
of hay-balance for weighing hay and thistles on, pleasures and pains on."
The great apostle of this theory was John Stuart Mill, and the great
father of it Jeremy Bentham.
- Wikipedia
U*til`i*ta"ri*an*ism (?), n.
1. The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the
greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political
institutions. Bentham.
2. The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility,
or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the
highest happiness of the universe. J. S. Mill.
3. The doctrine that utility is the sole standard
of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its
usefulness.
U*til`i*ta"ri*an*ism (?), n.
1. The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the
greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political
institutions. Bentham.
2. The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility,
or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the
highest happiness of the universe. J. S. Mill.
3. The doctrine that utility is the sole standard
of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its
usefulness.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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