<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ccdbf84-bfa2-4e60-923b-62151a6b6e7e/42DF75A0-EDAF-4507-A002-6440F1A46ECC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Felicific_calculus&oldid=276411777" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Felicific_calculus&oldid=276411777" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Felicific_calculus&oldid=276411777"><P>The <B>felicific calculus</B> is an <A title="Algorithm" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm">algorithm</A> formulated by <A title="Utilitarianism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism">utilitarian</A> philosopher <A title="Jeremy Bentham" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham">Jeremy Bentham</A> for calculating the degree or amount of <A title="Pleasure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure">pleasure</A> that a specific action is likely to cause. Bentham, an <A title="Ethics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics">ethical</A> <A class="mw-redirect" title="Hedonist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonist">hedonist</A>, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced. The felicific calculus could, in principle at least, determine the moral status of any considered act. The algorithm is also known as the <B>utility calculus</B>, the <B>hedonistic calculus</B> and the <B>hedonic calculus</B>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/42DF75A0-EDAF-4507-A002-6440F1A46ECC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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