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That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. — Francis Hutcheson

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That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue · 1725
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Topic
UtilitarianismMoral theoryMorality
Statement type
Precepts and axioms
Genre
Philosophical literature
Medium
Treatise
Time
1725
Person
Francis Hutcheson
Provenance
Current citation
Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Liberty Fund, 2008.
Original citation
Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London: J. Darby, 1726, treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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