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            112   International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE, 10(36), Autumn. 2023

            Introduction                                 Based  on  the  Principle  of
            Ethics has always been one of             Utility,  only  an  action  and
            the  most  essential  issues  in          rule that has the highest level
            human  life  and  addressing              of  benefit  and  happiness  for
            this  issue  is  one  of  the  most       the  largest  number  of  people

            important      tasks     of    any        in  society  is  correct  and
            researcher who has intellectual           necessary.
            and  practical  concerns  about              According to many Western

            education. Ethics and happiness           thinkers,  utilitarian  ethics,
            can  be  considered  as  a  coin.         despite  the  criticisms  and
            (Hosseini Dehshiri, 2022: 100)            modifications  it  has  always

               One  of  the  interesting  and         faced, is now one of the most
            important  topics  in  the  field         popular  ethical  philosophies
            of ethics is pleasure. With this          and     one     of    the    most

            assumption, the question arises           acceptable  foundations  on
            whether  all  pleasures  are              which  ethics,  rights,  politics,
            permissible  for  humans  or              and economics can be built.
            some  pleasures  are  forbidden              Jeremy Bentham, an influential

            for him.                                  British philosopher, jurist, and
               One  of  the  prominent,               reformer,  was  the  founder  of
            famous, and late examples of              utilitarianism. He was action-

            pleasure-oriented  schools,  if           oriented, pleasure-seeking, and
            not  the  most  important  type,          holistic, and his philosophical
            is  utilitarianism,  which  is            foundation, which is based on

            based  on  the  fundamental               the pleasure-seeking nature of
            principle      of     utility    or       humans,       is    still   valid.
            maximizing good.                          (Golestani, 2001: 23&116)
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