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Greatest happiness of the greatest number. - [Proverbs] For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act. - A System of Moral Philosophy--The General Notions of Rights and Laws Explained (bk. II, ch. III) [Right] That action which appears most conducive to the happiness of and virtue of mankind. - A System of Moral Philosophy--The General Notions of Rights, Law Expl. (bk. II, ch. III) [Action] That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery. - Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (treatise II, sec. 3) [Happiness]
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