axiom of benevolence

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In ethics: Early intuitionists: Cudworth, More, and Clarke
…Hobbes, More included an “axiom of benevolence”: “If it be good that one man should be supplied with the means of living well and happily, it is mathematically certain that it is doubly good that two should be so supplied, and so on.” Here, More was attempting to build…
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