Team B Chapter 11 & 12 Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. inherent capacity for growth, development, or coming into existence
  2. 3. the ethical theory that pleasure is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
  3. 9. the interpretation of utilitarianism that says that each moral situation should be guided first by prima facie rules (that themselves are justified by utilitarianism).
  4. 12. producing or capable of producing a desired effect
  5. 13. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
  6. 15. The view that general hedonism is measured through an aggregate counting of happiness/pleasure as measured via money or some other externalist currency
  7. 18. Also called agent-based ethics. Its position is that we become good when we cultivate excellence (virtue) by pursuing the moderate course between excess and defect.
  8. 19. cause or give rise to
Down
  1. 1. the smaller number or part
  2. 2. The assertion that pleasure is the highest and ultimate motivation of human behavior (scientific fact).
  3. 4. The doctrine that the way to be good is the middle way between extremes: for example courage is midway between cowardice and foolhardiness. The person seeking this lifestyle will aim to be moderate in all that she does.
  4. 5. The notion that the pleasure principle (that supports egoistic hedonism) can be expanded to the group so that agents are interested in supporting actions that promise more general happiness than other proposed alternatives.
  5. 6. the theory that suggests that an action is morally right when that action produces more total utility for the group as a consequence than any other alternative does.
  6. 7. In virtue ethics, it is assumed that the habits we possess are under our control. The project of ethics is for each person to habituate himself toward the acquisition of propensities toward the moderate way.
  7. 8. a range of different things
  8. 10. The interpretation of utilitarianism that says that each moral situation should be subjected to the utilitarian formula “the greatest good for the greatest number.”
  9. 11. The situation in which an agent (through no fault of her own) finds herself in the situation in which she cannot act without doing evil.
  10. 14. The view that general hedonism is measured through the average (mean, median, or modal) happiness of representative people in the society.
  11. 16. In virtue ethics, creating an integrated character with the middle way of moderation in accord with reason.
  12. 17. the state, quality, or condition of excelling; superiority.