Felicific calculus
ALGORITHM MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF PLEASURE THAT A SPECIFIC ACTION IS LIKELY TO CAUSE
Utility calculus; Hedonic calculus; Hedonic Calculus; Hedonistic calculus; Hedon (unit); Mathematics of philosophy; Hedons and dolor; Pleasure calculus; Utilitarian calculus
The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1747–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced.