UTILITARIANISM
\jˌuːtɪlɪtˈe͡əɹi͡ənˌɪzəm], \jˌuːtɪlɪtˈeəɹiənˌɪzəm], \j_ˌuː_t_ɪ_l_ɪ_t_ˈeə_ɹ_iə_n_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of UTILITARIANISM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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
By Princeton University
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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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The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
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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.
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The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
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The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions.
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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.
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The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.
By Noah Webster.
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A philosophically coherent set of propositions (for example, utilitarianism) which attempts to provide general norms for the guidance and evaluation of moral conduct. (from Beauchamp and Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 4th ed)
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By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions ;—the doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that the practice of morality is binding on man, and enjoined by God solely on the ground of its tendency to promote the happiness of mankind; —the doctrine that utility is the sole standard of virtue, or that every thing is morally right which is conducive to the well-being of society.
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