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<p>The <b>felicific calculus</b> is an <a href="page.php?w=algorithm">algorithm</a> formulated by <a href="page.php?w=utilitarianism">utilitarian</a> philosopher <a href="page.php?w=Jeremy_Bentham">Jeremy Bentham</a> (1748-1832) for calculating the degree or amount of <a href="page.php?w=pleasure">pleasure</a> that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an <a href="page.php?w=ethics">ethical</a> <a href="page.php?w=hedonist">hedonist</a>, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or</p><p>
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