And of course there was Bentham with his felicific calculus of pleasure and pain, to say nothing of Jefferson and Franklin. |
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Could man ever return to the felicific idea of progress as advocated by the 18th or 19th centuries? |
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America's felicific stagnation shouldn't be ignored, Bok argues, whatever the explanation. |
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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. |
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The Langham is proof of the felicific power of good architecture, the power to promote, both in its inhabitants and in passers-by, happiness. |
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Bentham suggested a procedure for estimating the moral status of any action, which he called the Hedonistic or felicific calculus. |
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Obviously, such a felicific coincidence cries out for both terms to be featured together in the same palindrome, but first things first. |
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Has conduct worth in and for itself, or only as its consequences are felicific as regards the social welfare? |
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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. |
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He referred to the effort to value the results of an act, whether positive or negative, as the felicific calculus. |
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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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