AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
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a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure to the greatest number
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a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a given piece of literature
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a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. It is a form of consequentialism. Utilitarianism holds that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number.
Detailed explanation-2: -Utilitarianism holds that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce sadness, or the reverse of happiness-not just the happiness of the actor but that of everyone affected by it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Utilitarianism is an effort to provide an answer to the practical question “What ought a person to do?” The answer is that a person ought to act so as to maximize happiness or pleasure and to minimize unhappiness or pain.
Detailed explanation-4: -The greatest happiness principle is the ultimate standard of morality set up by classical utilitarianism (see Utilitarianism). That classical creed conceives of good as happiness (see Happiness) and holds that right actions are those which maximize the total happiness of the members of the community.