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A Universal Moral Theory Dennis R. Cooley Department of History North Dakota State University 19 January 2003 Supported by a USDA/CSREES/IFAFS grant, “Consortium to Address Social, Economic, and Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology.” Utilitarianism The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in the 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. -