Neferteri Grace P. Jumawan
ITETHICS
BS-IS
Mr. Paul Pajo
Title: Trying out One’s New Sword
Author: Mary Midgley
Quotes:
“Isolating barriers simply cannot arise here” – Mary Midgley
“What is involved in judging?” – Mary Midgley
“Moral isolation would lay down a general ban on moral reasoning”
“The power of moral judgement is, in fact, not a luxury, not a perverse
indulgence of the self-righteousness.” – Mary Midgley
“When we judge something to be good or bad, better or worse than something
else, we are taking it as an example to aim at or avoid” – Mary Midgley
“Without opinions of this sort, we would have no framework of comparison for our
own policy, no chance of profiting by other people’s insights or mistakes.” – Mary
Midgley
Review:
Ms. Mary Midgley, the author tackled the moral isolationism. Midgley stated that
moral isolationism involves the view of anthropologists and people cannot criticized
cultures because they can’t understand it. She cited an example about a Japanese
culture. In this example, she explained that during the older Japanese culture, there was
a part of trying out new samurai sword. Midgley had an argument about moral
isolationism has its immorlaism because of the moral reasoning.
She also discussed