A system of moral analysis according to which actions are good to the extent that they tend to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people and bad to the extent that they tend to p...
A stable operative habit inclining to actions that inhibit human perfection.
(also called Excellence).— A stable operative habit by which human beings are perfected.
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