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Down: 1) Utilitarianism - A system of ___ according to which the _____ or ___ of an action should be judged by its _____. The goal of utilitarian ethics is to promote the greatest ____ for the greatest ________. Jeremy Bentham an English philosopher, was the founder of utilitarianism John Staurat Mill was its best known defender. Across: 2) A proclamation for the pigs was to control the government in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of the government. That proclaims absolute equality of their citizens but gives power and privilege to a small elite. 3)  A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. This saying appears in dialogue, Republic by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.4)  A line from the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. A mischievous fairy, Puck addressing his king is commenting on the folly of the human beings who have come into his forest. 5) Culture - The sum of _, __, and __that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted through _____, _____, ___, ____, and ___, from one generation to the next. 6) A line for a love poem by the 17th century poet Ben Johnson. He suggests that lovers find each other's glances so intoxicating that they have no need to drink wine. 7) Said in a poem Ode on a Grecian Urn8) A statement by the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras. It is usually interpreted to mean that the individual human being rather that a god or an unchanging moral laws is the ultimate source of value9) Proverb: people who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error first said by Alexander Pope. 10) Ethics the Brand of philosophy that deals with the ____ of the shoulds of society, Ethics is concerned with distinguishing between ___ and ___ in the world, between ___and ___, and between ____ and ___ characteristics of people. 11) words from the play of King Henry. The fifth by William Shakespeare. King Henry is rallying his troops to attack a breach, or gap in the wall of an enemy city. 12) ____- a process of reasoning that moves from _____ ________ to predict _ _____13) the opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens referring to the time of the French Revolution. 14) Oxymoron15) __- a process of reasoning that moves from the __ ____to the __ __. 16) Speech said by Shylok that mantained his dignity.17) Lines from “The Rime of the ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The speaker, a sailor on a reclaimed ship, is surrounded by salt water he cannot drink. 18) The first line of the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. The speaker is asking for music because he is frustrated in courtship, he wants an overabundance of love so that he may lose his appetite for it. 19) Free will, ability to ___, ___, and ___ voluntarily for many philosophers to believe in free will is to believe that human beings can be the ___ of their own ___ and reject the idea that human actions are determined by ______ or ____.20) Words from a poem by Robert Browning suggesting that to achieve anything worthwhile a person should attempt even those things that may turn out to be impossible 21) Civil disobedience. This is a famous saying said by Henry David Thoreau.22) What does sweetness and light mean23)  a phrase from John Milton’s greatest work, Paradise Lost, Milton was a 17 century English poet who dictated Paradise Lost after going blind. With Geoffrey Chaufer and William Shakespeare, Milton is considered a great English poet. 24) -- - A line from the play “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare continues and our little life is rounded with a sleep. It is said by the magician Prospero he has just made a large form of species vanish and is reminding his daughter that mortal life ends. 25) first line of the poem To the Virgins to make much of time- from the middle of the 17th century by the English poet Robert Herrick; He is advising people to take advantage of life while they are young. 26) An inscription at the entrance to hell as described by Dante in the Divine Comedy
 

 

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