<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Beneficence · Pablo Stafforini</title><link>https://stafforini.com/tags/beneficence/</link><description/><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://stafforini.com/tags/beneficence/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>beneficence</title><link>https://stafforini.com/quotes/moller-beneficence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://stafforini.com/quotes/moller-beneficence/</guid><description>&lt;![CDATA[<blockquote><p>One need not be a consequentialist to find something odd in a Kantian’s proposal to donate $100 to a famine relief organization she happens to know is especially inefficient when there is a more efficient organization that will save more people standing by.</p></blockquote>
]]></description></item><item><title>beneficence</title><link>https://stafforini.com/quotes/bentham-beneficence-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://stafforini.com/quotes/bentham-beneficence-2/</guid><description>&lt;![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you,—will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others,—or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom,—while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful flowers of peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.</p></blockquote>
]]></description></item><item><title>beneficence</title><link>https://stafforini.com/quotes/bentham-beneficence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://stafforini.com/quotes/bentham-beneficence/</guid><description>&lt;![CDATA[<blockquote><p>[T]he dictates of utility are neither more nor less than the dictates of the most extensive and enlightened (that is well-advised) benevolence.</p></blockquote>
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