Contemporary Moral Problems

Book Review Chapter 1: Ethical Theories:

Mary Midgley: Trying Out One’s New Sword

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http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Moral-Problems-James-White/dp/0534584306/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233793391&sr=8-1

Quote:  “Moral isolation forbids us to form any opinions on these matters. Its ground for doing so is that we don’t understand them”

            Based on my personal reaction on this quotation is these moral isolation affect the human being to have a better idea on different thing like give a equal attention on different people, so that the effect of this is misunderstanding among different people because of different opinions and language.

Learning Expectation:

·         The meaning of Trying out one’s new sword.

·         I want to increase my knowledge about isolation opinion.

·         I want to know if this chapter has a better output for being a good person.

·         Who is the philosopher wrote this theory and why he wrote it.

Review:

This Review the topic is all about the ethical perspective of the author, and to start let start to introduce the author. The name of the author is Mary Midgley he Share her knowledge at the University of Newcastle-upon-tyne in England for about twenty years and now retired. She is the author of cluding Animals and why they matter.

This chapter attacks the moral isolationism, the view of anthropologist and others that we cannot criticize cultures that we do not understand. This view shows that every culture has its own uniqueness and according to the author equilibrium of different people is the most important. According to the author this isolationism is a place where embrace the humankind is piercingly.

We cannot criticize other people and other country for our own happiness and idea. This isolation is like separated societies with different boundaries and limitation eat societies have different policies, but in the end moral isolation is wrong because it is different moral to apply in different person and moral values what we are familiar with.

What I’ve learned:

·          I learned what the meaning of Trying out new Sword is.

·          I learned that moral isolation is wrong.

·         I learned how the authors differs the moral isolation to the different view.

·         I learned that every country is unique, that we will need to understand their culture before make a conclusion for them.

·         I learned that this is happening now in the present period. 

·         I learned who the author of the chapter is and why he wrote this study.

Questions:

1.    It is true that morality isolation is correct?

2.    How does it affect the people now in our country?

3.    It is applicable now in our present day?

4.    Criticizing other culture will give happiness? 

5.    What is Moral Isolationism?

Citation: (James E. White, St. Cloud State University, 2003)