🧩 Philosophy 5h ago · James Brobin

All Utilitarians Should Be Classical Utilitarians

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This is a crosspost from my blog post.I recently had the great joy of meeting a group of utilitarians, but, to my complete horror, out of the twelve of them, not a single one was a classical utilitarian.In case you don’t know, classical utilitarianism was the original form of utilitarianism promoted by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham. It is often referred to as total hedonic utilitarianism, and it holds that, most basically, when one is choosing what action to take, they always ought to alwa

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