felicific calculus

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名词 n.
  1. A quasi-mathematical technique proposed by 19th-century utilitarian ethical theorists for determining the net amount of happiness, pleasure, or utility resulting from an action, sometimes regarded as a precursor of cost-benefit analysis. historical
    — Bentham's way of becoming the Newton of the moral world was to develop the "felicific calculus."

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Widely attributed to British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), but apparently used only by his successors.
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