Consider the following statement:
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By "happiness" is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by "unhappiness," pain and the privation of pleasure.
This view is best described as

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This statement is a summary of utilitarianism, which is a form of consequentialism. Consequentialist theories judge the rightness or wrongness of actions based on their outcomes or consequences, specifically aiming for the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

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