Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 155 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bentham's Calculus
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The idea
Bentham's calculus weighs pleasures and pains by intensity, duration, certainty, and extent — a moral arithmetic any legislator could run on any proposal.
In practice
Scoring a factory rule: multiply the workers affected, the hours of relief, the odds it works; subtract the costs the same way.
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