1. Noun
The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
2. Noun
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.
3. Noun
The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
4. noun
The view that choices should aim to produce the greatest overall benefit.
An ethical theory that evaluates actions by their consequences for overall wellbeing.
5. Noun
doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number
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