PHIL 201 Test 5 Crossword
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
                                                 
 
 
Down: 2) Has value outside itself - money.3) the pursuit of pleasure for its ow sake often results not in pleasure but frustration.6) is the branch of ethics concerned with establishing how things should or ought to be, how to value them, which things are good or bad, and which actions are right or wrong. It attempts to develop a set of rules governing human conduct or a set of norms for action. 9) has value in itself - a person.10) is a normative ethical theory; that is, a theory about what makes actions right or wrong.11) the resolving of moral problems by the application of theorectical rules to particular intances. 14) to promote the good and avoid evil.17) leaves open the question of moral knowledge. 19) a form of cognitivism that holds that moral statements can be known to be true or false immediately through a kind of rational intuition.20) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct; the virtues are the requisite skills and character - traits. 21) Why is this the right thing to do?26) states that, when faced with a choice, we must first consider the likely consequences of potential actions in that particular case and, from that choose to do what we believe will generate the most overall happiness. Across: 1) if people are motivated by self-interest anyway, then they ought to pursue their own good as deliberately and effectively as they can. 4) the problem of whether prescriptive statements-stating what the case ought to be-can be derived from descriptive statements-stating what the case is. 5) a four part point of view of morals consisting of the following parts: to subscribe to normative judgments about actions, principles, & motives; To universalize judgments concerning morally relevant similar situations; to formulate ethical views in a free, impartial and enlighten way; and the Synderesis Rule. 4. Synderesis Rule- to promote the good and avoid evil 7)  is the view that moral language simply expresses and perhaps arouses emotion, so that nothing we say in moral terms is either ture or false about anything.8) states that, when faced with a choice, we must look at potential rules of action to determine whether the generalized rule produces more happiness than otherwise, if it were to be constantly followed. 12) for each alternative action or policy, we can quanitify the pleasure involved in terms of intensity, duration, certainty or uncertainty, propinquity or remoteness, fecundity, purity (no admixture of pain), and extent (the number of persons affted). Then we can quantify th pain and simply subtract the sum of pain from the sum of pleasure.13) states that moral practices and beliefs vary from culture to culture and at different times in history and not are universal.15) morality is not a matter of independent rational judgment but is causally dependent on cultural context.16) Temperance, Courage, Wisdom, Justice. 18) argued that moral requirements are based on a standard of rationality. 22) Has to do with why I am doing something. 23) involve conflicts between moral requirements. 24) God's commandments are what they are because He freely and sovereignly willed them. 25) is concerned with maximizing the benefits for the maximum number of people.27) is what reason prescribes for the harmonious and just ordering of a society, and, since we are rational beings, we can determine rationally what natural law requires. 28) is the view that one particular ethnic group is somehow superieor to all to others. 29) seizes on this fact and generalizes so as to claim that all people are continually motivated by self-interest.
 

 

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