| 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. |
| He referred to the effort to value the results of an act, whether positive or negative, as the felicific calculus. |
| Could man ever return to the felicific idea of progress as advocated by the 18th or 19th centuries? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
