But either way it is all odd, as if there were some kind of felicific calculus for friendship and one that applies to us all equally, however different our natures. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
The felicific or hedonic valence of these various consequences can be mixed. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
In any felicific calculus, he is unlikely to go down in history as the man who created the greatest happiness for the greatest number. From Wordnik.com. [An unhappiness index is more David Cameron's style] Reference
Some stopped at the outset with the felicific calculus, argued that pleasure was an evanescent phenomenon, that it could not be added or summed up. From Wordnik.com. [HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE] Reference
Here Bentham clearly ascribes the felicific tendency to action tokens, and he equates an action's felicific tendency with the extent to which it promotes utility. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
First, it was common among the Philosophical Radicals to formulate utilitarianism, as the Proportionality Doctrine does, in terms of the felicific tendencies of actions. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
In that same chapter, he focuses on the felicific tendencies of actions and assigns a significant role to rules within moral reasoning, both of which have been taken to commit him to a rule utilitarian doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
The 'felicific calculus' is enough to show the inadequacy of his method. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
We are bound to apply our 'felicific calculus' with absolute impartiality. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
America's felicific stagnation shouldn't be ignored, Bok argues, whatever the explanation. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
We have to interpret all the facts in terms of pain or pleasure, and we shall have the materials for what has since been called a 'felicific calculus.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
Again, upon the assumption that 'moral' is equivalent to 'felicific,' we get a general rule entitled to override any individual tastes or fancies, such as Mill supposes to be meant by the 'Moral Sense.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
A second caveat is procedure called hedonic or felicific that the terms physical or mental should not calculus, for determining how much be taken too literally: physical pain or pleasure and pain would result from any suffering, as a matter of fact, happens action. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Now, ultimately, I think the strongest arguments here do have a deontic flavor: The problem with slavery wasn’t (just) that it didn’t make plantation owners happy enough to balance the felicific ledger. From Wordnik.com. [More Draftiness] Reference
A feasible project to work out a felicific calculus in which the value of a given lot of pleasure or pain would be reckoned by measuring each of its components for intensity, duration, certainty or uncertainty, propin - quity or remoteness, fecundity, purity, and (where more than one person is concerned) the extent or number of persons affected. From Wordnik.com. [HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE] Reference
Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. ". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com] Reference
Bentham's 'felicific calculus.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
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