Thursday, September 30, 2021

That Action Is Best

That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery.

-- Francis Hutcheson (1694 - 1746), Irish philosopher, An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Treatise II, Section 3

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