Contemporary Moral Problems

Book Review Chapter 1: Ethical Theories:

Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously

Library Reference: N/A

Amazon:

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:  “The constitution fuses legal and moral issues, by making the validity of a law depend on the answer to complex moral problem.”

For my personal reaction on this statement why I choose this statement is basically this statement shows the combination of different issues which is legal and moral values that all of the rules are dependent by which the moral problems are involved. This will show that every law is valid if you have a answer on different thing which Is complicated like moral problem.

Learning Expectation:

·         I want to know who is the author of the book

·         I want to know what is Taking Rights Seriously

·         I want to know if these are happening in the present day.

·         I want to gain more knowledge about the ethical theories.

Review:

            To start the discussion let me first discuss who is the author of the book to introduce that he is Ronal Dworkin, He is a professor of different university like Jurisprudence, Oxford University and New York University, he wrote different book like a bill of Rights for Britain, freedoms law, the moral reading of American constitution, sovereign virtue, the theory of practice and equality and taking rights seriously. 

            This review focus on different aspects like the rights of the citizens which show that are the different rights of the people within that community, if it is the citizen are involve on different situation like taking the rights of other people. It also discuss what is the rights and the right to break the law, this means that there is a certain limitation that you are able to break the law if you argue that you own opinion and you think you are doing right at the same time violating that law of the community. The next is the controversial rights this topic is showing what are the government rules that they need to fosses what are the need of different individual rights.

What I’ve learned:

·         I learned who the author is and what his background is.

·         I learned what is the meaning of Taking Rights Seriously

·         I learned that the government must focus on the different individual rights

·         I learned how the people react on the different rights by the government.

Questions:

1.    It is compatible with our own culture?

2.    How these theories affect the people in the world?

3.    Do you think that all philosophers will go after the statement and rules?

4.    What is the reason why the author wrote this book?

5.    it is his own idea or he experience this?

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