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Francis Hutcheson on Happiness

1694–1746 Northern Ireland

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

An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725)

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