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[Anonymous No.18276721]

books on Utilitarianism?

[Anonymous No.18276736]

>>18276721
There is no way to quantify the good

[Anonymous No.18276760]

sorry. I am using mine.

[Anonymous No.18276791]

>>18276721
>Benthamee Utility, virtue by Profit and Loss; reducing this God’s-world to a dead brute Steam-engine, the infinite celestial Soul of Man to a kind of Hay-balance for weighing hay and thistles on, pleasures and pains on:—If you ask me which gives, Mahomet or they, the beggarlier and falser view of Man and his Destinies in this Universe, I will answer, It is not Mahomet!——

[Anonymous No.18276818]

>>18276736
sure there is, just ask me and i'll give you a number

[Anonymous No.18276826]

Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation;
J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government;
Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics;
James Griffin, Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement, and Moral Importance (Oxford University Press, 1986);
David Lyons, Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford University Press, 1965);
Richard Brandt, A Theory of the Right and the Good (Oxford University Press, 1979), and Morality, Utilitarianism and Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1992);
R. M. Hare, Moral Thinking (Oxford University Press, 1981);
Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1993);
J. J. c. Smart and B. Williams (eds.), Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge University Press, 1973);
Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams (eds.), Utilitarianism and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

[Anonymous No.18276835]

>>18276818
I forgot about you, but we can't just use you to settle every debate, the logistics don't make sense

[Anonymous No.18277028]

>>18276721
>apu
>shit post