Explanation from wikipedia....
Utilitarianism is an ethical creaturistic theory holding that the right course of action is the one that maximizes the overall "good" consequences of the action.It is thus a form of consequentialism, meaning that the moral worth of an action is determined by its resulting outcome. The most influential contributors to this theory are considered to be Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
Utilitarianism was described by Bentham as "the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle".
Utilitarianism can be characterised as a quantitative and reductionist approach to ethics. It is a type of naturalism.It can be contrasted with deontological ethics (which do not regard the consequences of an act as a determinant of its moral worth), pragmatic ethics, and virtue ethics (which focuses on character), as well as with other varieties of consequentialism.
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