Felicific: Exact account of the general tendency of any act
Português
To take an exact account of the general tendency of any act, by which the interests of a community are affected, proceed as follows.
Interests of a person
Begin with any one person of those whose interests seem most immediately to be affected by it, and take an account:
- Of the value of each distinguishable pleasure which appears to be produced by it in the first instance
- Of the value of each pain which appears to be produced by it in the first instance
- Of the value of each pleasure which appears to be produced by it after the first instance. This constitutes the fecundity of the first pleasure and the impurity of the first pain
- Of the value of each pain which appears to be produced by it after the first instance. This constitutes the fecundity of the first pain, and the impurity of the first pleasure
Tendency of the act with respect to the interests of the individual person
Sum up all the values of all the pleasures on the one side, and those of all the pains on the other. The balance, if it be on the side of pleasure, will give the good tendency of the act upon the whole, with respect to the interests of that individual person; if on the side of pain, the bad tendency of it upon the whole.
Interests of total number or community of individuals concerned
Take an account of the number of persons whose interests appear to be concerned; and repeat the above process with respect to each.
Numbers expressive of the degrees of good tendency
Sum up the numbers expressive of the degrees of good tendency, which the act has, with respect to each individual, in regard to whom the tendency of it is good upon the whole.
Numbers expressive of the degrees of bad tendency
Do this again with respect to each individual, in regard to whom the tendency of it is bad upon the whole.
General tendency of the act with respect to the total number or community of individuals concerned
Take the balance which if on the side of pleasure, will give the general good tendency of the act, with respect to the total number or community of individuals concerned; if on the side of pain, the general evil tendency, with respect to the same community.
Keywords:
value of tendency of educational act,
mathematics in interests,
interests of community,
mathematics faculty,
business model,
hedonic regression,
utility calculus
Português:
cálculo felicífico
Act. Available from <
https://translate.google.com.br/?hl=pt-BR#en/pt/act >. access on 7 October 2016.
Felicific calculus. Felicific: relating to or promoting increased happiness. Hedonic calculus. Available from <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicific_calculus >. access on 26 September 2016.
Hedonic regression. Available from <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_regression >. access on 14 September 2016.
Shiller, Robert J. "Measuring asset values for cash settlement in derivative markets: hedonic repeated measures indices and perpetual futures." The Journal of Finance 48.3 (1993): 911-931. Available from <
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GregorioIvanoff - 28 Sep 2016
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