Utilitarianism

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Across
  1. 2. Acting on and living by the values you endorse.
  2. 3. This means that acts should be judged on a case by case basis.
  3. 7. Tyranny of the _______.
  4. 10. The machine involved in Nozick's thought experiment which allows the user to live a happy manufactured life.
  5. 12. Pleasures which include thought, feeling and imagination
  6. 13. _____ principles are moral rules which generally produce happiness if followed (e.g. 'do not lie').
  7. 14. A type of util with the ideology that the right act is the one which maximizes happiness (defined as the balance of pleasure over pain)
  8. 16. The property of an object or action in virtue which usually produces happiness.
Down
  1. 1. A moral philosophy which only focuses on the end result of an action, and not the action itself.
  2. 4. Pleasures which involve the body and senses.
  3. 5. Justified moral demands regarding how other people treat us, especially the freedoms (e.g. from harm) or benefits (e.g. education) they should provide.
  4. 6. A type of util with the ideology that we should maximize happiness (defined as the satisfaction of people's preferences)
  5. 8. The belief that pleasure is happiness and the only good.
  6. 9. The name of the calculus Bentham uses to calculate the pleasures and pains caused by an action.
  7. 11. Favoring certain people over others (e.g. family, friends).
  8. 15. A type of util with the ideology that the right act is the one which complies with rules which would lead to the greatest happiness (assuming everyone followed them)