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Utilitarianism

British pronunciation/jˌuːtɪlɪtˈe‍əɹi‍ənˌɪzəm/
American pronunciation/jˌuːɾɪlɪtˈɛɹiənˌɪzəm/
Utilitarianism
[NOUN]
1

the doctrine that the best measure or decision is the one that satisfies the majority of people

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1Utilitarianism also abets the confusion of censorship with private sanction.
2So utilitarianism gives us one sort of systematic answer to this question.
3One of the most influential ethical theories to engineering has been utilitarianism.
4Is it utilitarianism?
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