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Down: 1) Claims that the satisfaction of your actual or informed desires is necessary and sufficient to improve your welfare. Your life goes well to the extent that you get what you want.4) Satisfying desires results in pain.5) Says that well-being is the only thing of intrinsic value. Version of rule consequentialism.6) Laws we created for ourselves to govern our own behavior (Positive Law).8) Moral standards created by individuals or cultures.12) The view that an act is morally required just because it is commanded by God, and immoral just because God forbids it.13) Producing the best possible results.14) The view that pleasure is the only thing that is intrinsically valuable, and pain/unhappiness is the only thing that is intrinsically bad.17) Study of the nature of values and value judgment.18) Organizes, defends, and recommends concepts of right and wrong behavior. aka Moral Philosophy21) Participation in the eternal law in the rational structure of the universe. The creation reflects the creator.23) The application of moral philosophy to actual problems.27) Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.31) The area of ethical theory that asks about normative ethical claims. Investigates where our ethical principles come from, if they are true, and if we have reasons to obey them. Across: 2) Says that an action is morally right if and only if it does more to improve overall well-being than any other action you could have done in that situation.3) Those things that are good in and of themselves, considered entirely apart from any good results they may cause.7) An actions morality depends on its intrinsic qualities not its consequences. Theory dealing with duty, moral obligations, and moral rights.9) The desire to benefit others for their own sake, without any ulterior motives.10) Says that actions are morally right just because they maximize self-interest.11) The will or laws of God.15) Satisfying desires without causing pain.16) Something’s value is based on results they cause or external factors.19) A person can do anything he wishes, as long as his actions do not physically harm others.20) Doing what is in the best interest of everyone to create the greatest net balance of happiness over unhappiness.22) Claims that certain things are good for people whether or not they believe them to be and whether or not such things satisfy a persons actual or informed desires.24) Says that only well-being is intrinsically valuable, and that an act is morally right just because it maximizes overall well-being.25) Traits that we are born with.26) The view that all human actions are motivated by self-interest, and that altruism is impossible.28) The area of ethical theory focused on identifying which kinds of actions are right and wrong, examining the plausibility of various moral rules, and determining which character traits qualify as virtues and which as vices.29) A family of normative ethical theories that share the idea that the morality of actions, policies, motives, or rules depends on their producing the best actual or expected results.30) The capacity to determine for yourself the principles you will live by. It can also refer to your ability to live according to your own plan of life.32) Human nature is given by our natural purposes, which is survival and procreation.33) Normative ethical view that says actions are right if and only if they are natural, and wrong if and only if they are unnatural. People are good to the extent that they fulfill their true nature and bad insofar as they do not.34) Worship God, Ordered society, Reproduce, Learn and teach, Defend the innocent.35) Human nature is given by our natural purposes, that which we are best able to accomplish.36) The area of ethics concerned with identifying what is valuable in its own right, and explaining the nature of well being.37) The direct commands of God found in the bible.
 

 

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