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 | | John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist of the nineteenth century, was a well-known supporter of utilitarianism, a system of ethics according to which the rightness or wrongness of an action is to be judged by its consequences, with the consequences of ethical actions intended to further the greatest happiness for the greatest number. |
 | | As Mill put it, A creed which accepts as the foundation of morals >utility or the >greatest happiness principle holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. |
 | | The modern natural law of Niccolb Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke held that man through reason can discern certain legal principles that will establish peace in an otherwise government-less state of (human) nature. |
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