"That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery."
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An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Treatise II, Section 3
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Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
Francis Hutcheson (8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher.
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