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We have to interpret all the facts in terms of pain or pleasure, and we shall have the materials for what has since been called a 'felicific calculus. To construct this with a view to legislation is his immediate purpose.
Here we must be guided by a principle which is, in fact, the logical result of the doctrines already laid down. We are bound to apply our 'felicific calculus' with absolute impartiality. We must therefore assign equal value to all motives.
It is the economic equivalent of the 'utility' of Bentham's 'felicific calculus. It means the 'lot of pleasure' which causes a thing to be desirable. If we could tell how many units of utility it contained we could infer the rate of exchange for other things.
If he had little psychology he had not even a conception of 'sociology. The 'felicific calculus' is enough to show the inadequacy of his method. The purpose is to enable us to calculate the effects of a proposed law. You propose to send robbers to the gallows or the gaol.
Again, upon the assumption that 'moral' is equivalent to 'felicific, we get a general rule entitled to override any individual tastes or fancies, such as Mill supposes to be meant by the 'Moral Sense. The rule is derived from the interests of all, and gives an ultimate 'objective criterion. J. S. Mill, describing his father's system, observes that the teaching of such a man was not likely to err on 'the side of laxity or indulgence. It certainly did not.
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