utilitarianism
is an approach to morality that treats pleasure or desire-satisfaction as the sole element in human good and that regards the morality of actions as entirely dependent on consequences or results for human (or sentient) well-being. Utilitarianism has its origins in late seventeenth-century Britain, received its ‘classical’ formulations in the work of ... ...
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