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26 Post author: Multiheaded 25 January 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: Jack 27 January 2012 04:10:05PM 3 points [-]

Not all utilitarian theories are committed to believing the additive property-- "average utilitarianism" most famously. Trying to maximize human "virtue" strikes me as quite a different thing than maximizing pleasure/utility and not something I would call utilitarianism. But in general yes, total, act utilitarianism is belief in maximizing additive property x where x is something like pleasure, desires, preferences etc.