{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a3fdc2d6b6690f46a4121da/6a3ff5f26b6690f46a47365b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Utilitarianism - Part 3: Calculating the good","description":"What happens when you try to turn morality into a system, with its own vocabulary, rules, and even formulas for happiness? Welcome to the world of the felicific calculus—a moral ledger meant to weigh every pleasure and pain.\r\n\r\nOnce the idea of maximizing happiness takes hold, utilitarianism becomes more than a slogan. Jeremy Bentham broke down the value of pleasures and pains into intensity, duration, certainty, proximity, and more. This wasn’t just an exercise in numbers. Bentham wanted moral judgments to be public, comparative, and open to inspection, not hidden in tradition or authority.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/utilitarianism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}