{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Utilitarianism - Part 2: The greatest happiness principle","description":"What if the whole of morality could be boiled down to a single question: Will this action increase happiness or reduce suffering for everyone affected? It’s an idea so simple it sounds like common sense, but so radical it rewrote the rules of ethics.\r\n\r\nAt its core, utilitarianism makes a bold claim: judge actions, laws, and institutions by their consequences for happiness. Not by their pedigree, not by their intention, but by how they affect the real lives of sentient beings. This is the formula that would come to be known as the greatest happiness for the greatest number. It sounds clear, almost obvious. But for eighteenth-century reformers like Jeremy Bentham, it was a revolution.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/utilitarianism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}