Hello, world

My intention is to use this blog to post my thoughts on utilitarianism, a system of ethics I both support personally and find intellectually fascinating. I hope to discuss both theoretical aspects of utilitarianism and its prescriptive implications for us. I have no formal training in ethics, but I have a lot of formal and informal training in a variety of areas which hopefully will make for interesting commentary.

I hope that others will join in this discussion, both here and beyond. If this blog is successful, I'd like to make it a team blog, so if you're interested in writing, contact me.

The name "Felicifia" comes from the expression "felicific calculus" which is Jeremy Bentham's term for the framework for calculating how good actions are from a utilitarian perspective. Bentham was an early and prominent advocate for utilitarianism. I was going to call this blog "Utilitaria" in a nod to the book The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat, but that name was already taken.