Review:
This article is about moral isolationism. According to the article, moral isolationism means that we cannot make any moral judgments about the practices of other cultures, because it is impossible to understand other cultures well enough, and because we owe respect to other cultures. For Mary Midgley, she argues that moral isolationism is essentially a doctrine of immoralism because it forbids moral reasoning. And also, according to her, moral isolationism falsely assumes that cultures are separate and unmixed, whereas most cultures are in fact formed out of many influences. I agree to what Mary Midgley said that most cultures are formed out of many influences because it’s true that all of the cultures are influence by other countries. Like the Filipino culture, there are times that some of the practices that the Filipinos do are also the practices that the Spanish people do because Spain conquered Philippines so it’s possible that the Spanish people teach the Filipino people about their culture. Well all of us have our own unique culture, but there are times that these cultures are mixed with other culture which is somewhat good because at least these gives people a chance to know more about the other cultures and not just their own culture. As a conclusion, we shouldn’t criticize or make any moral judgment about other cultures because we also don’t want other people to make judgment about our culture. We could just try to understand the culture of other people and appreciate it rather than criticizing it.
Chapter 4: Trying Out One’s New Sword
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