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How to use felicific in a sentence

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And of course there was Bentham with his felicific calculus of pleasure and pain, to say nothing of Jefferson and Franklin.
Could man ever return to the felicific idea of progress as advocated by the 18th or 19th centuries?
America's felicific stagnation shouldn't be ignored, Bok argues, whatever the explanation.
Beyond some point, the disutility of additional work surely offsets the value, both internal and external, of this work, even in the idealized felicific calculus.
The Langham is proof of the felicific power of good architecture, the power to promote, both in its inhabitants and in passers-by, happiness.
Bentham suggested a procedure for estimating the moral status of any action, which he called the Hedonistic or felicific calculus.
Obviously, such a felicific coincidence cries out for both terms to be featured together in the same palindrome, but first things first.
Has conduct worth in and for itself, or only as its consequences are felicific as regards the social welfare?
Bentham's influence has been felt to a considerable extent in the field of economics, in which the felicific calculus provided the groundwork for the development of policy based on cost-benefit analysis.
He referred to the effort to value the results of an act, whether positive or negative, as the felicific calculus.
Bentham's felicific calculus, that policy should be concerned with the greatest happiness of the greatest number, gradually confined beauty to a preserve of elites.
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