Advocated in The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick, it was given an evolutionary basis in The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology by Peter Singer.  
It was paired with institutions and justice in a work by James Wood Bailey, while the forms and limits of this concept were detailed by David Lyons.  Advocated in The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick, it was given an evolutionary basis in The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology by Peter Singer.  A method for utilizing this idea was developed in its formulator's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation based on factors like "duration" or "certainty" known as the felicific calculus.  Founded by Jeremy Bentham, for 10 points, name this idea in which the greatest happiness for the greatest number is promoted, also the namesake of a famous J.S. Mill treatise.
It was paired with institutions and justice in a work by James Wood Bailey, while the forms and limits of this concept were detailed by David Lyons.  
{utilitarianism}