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But either way it is all odd, as if there were some kind of felicific calculus for friendship and one that applies to us all equally, however different our natures.

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In any felicific calculus, he is unlikely to go down in history as the man who created the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

An unhappiness index is more David Cameron's style Polly Toynbee 2010

In that same chapter, he focuses on the felicific tendencies of actions and assigns a significant role to rules within moral reasoning, both of which have been taken to commit him to a rule utilitarian doctrine.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

First, it was common among the Philosophical Radicals to formulate utilitarianism, as the Proportionality Doctrine does, in terms of the felicific tendencies of actions.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

Here Bentham clearly ascribes the felicific tendency to action tokens, and he equates an action's felicific tendency with the extent to which it promotes utility.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

The felicific or hedonic valence of these various consequences can be mixed.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

Some stopped at the outset with the felicific calculus, argued that pleasure was an evanescent phenomenon, that it could not be added or summed up.

HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

The 'felicific calculus' is enough to show the inadequacy of his method.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

We have to interpret all the facts in terms of pain or pleasure, and we shall have the materials for what has since been called a 'felicific calculus.'

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

We are bound to apply our 'felicific calculus' with absolute impartiality.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868