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UTILITARIANISM
Utilitarianism and the Enlightenment . The science of the Enlightenment featured theories with a very small number of general laws and vast explanatory power. Newton's laws, for example, seemed able to account for all of the motion in the universe. Utilitarianism fit right in: it was an ethical theory compatible with science and featuring a