According to Bentham, Calculating the Total Amount of Pleasure and Pain

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According to Bentham, calculating the total amount of pleasure and pain produced by an action requires considering the intensity, duration, certainty, closeness in time, fecundity, and purity of the pleasures and pains produced by an action, as well as their extent.

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