USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bentham’s fundamental axiom, which underlies utilitarianism, was that all social morals and government legislation should aim for producing the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Utilitarianism is a theory of morality that advocates actions that foster happiness and oppose actions that cause unhappiness. Utilitarianism promotes “the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people."

Detailed explanation-3: -Mill’s Greatest Happiness Principle (Principle of Utility) establishes that happiness is the ultimate criterion to establish what is moral and what is not, i.e., the ideal moral society is the one where everybody is happy and everybody is free of pain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other forms of consequentialism, its core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. More specifically, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they produce.

Detailed explanation-5: -The ‘greatest happiness’ part is a maximising principle: it enjoins people to act so as to maximise human happiness produced. But the ‘of the greatest number’ part is a principle of distribution: it enjoins people to act so as to spread happiness around as equally as possible.