Article Summary: “Trying Out One’s New Sword” by Mary Midgley

Midley, Mary. "Try a new sword" from "heart and heart" New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1981

Midgley believes that not only moral isolationism - people should respect other cultures rather than judging their views - but it is also wrong, it is logically contradictory. Decisions are logically given priority and outsiders can judge different cultures Tentatively speaking, moral isolationism will completely fail to make morphology of any form. As moral isolationism insists, it is judged that culture is not an isolated barrier

Midgley's first discussion is as follows. If moral isolationism is right, people can respect culture without judging culture. But this is logically inconsistent as Midgley considers the judgment decision to be logically advanced. People have to judge to some extent in order to respect culture. In addition, once people understand about culture, they can make positive and negative decisions; both go hand in hand. The prohibition of moral isolationists, we can actively admit foreign cultures only, so it is impossible to stick to it.

Midgley's next discussion is actually a simple and rational argument. Outsiders can actually judge different cultures. These judgments are temporary and the scope is limited, but still fair. In particular, she quotes an anthropologist's judgment as an example. Therefore, moral isolationism is totally wrong in this problem.

Migli then claimed that moral isolationism brought about a general ban on moral reasoning - an unpleasant conclusion. She stated that the ability to judge other cultures as a reference frame is necessary to judge their own culture. If we can not judge other cultures, we can not judge our own culture. This leads to being unable to judge something in a moral sense, but that is obviously absurd. Since moral judgment is an essential part of existence, moral isolationism is not right

Finally, Midgley said that assumption of moral isolationism believes that culture exists in isolated foam, but in fact it is not. Culture continues to mix and now it is mixed more than ever. This mixing weakens the sustainability of moral isolationism by reducing the number of different isolated cultures far more than ever. But without an isolated culture, neither can isolate the moral community and moral isolationism becomes irrelevant.

If moral isolationism is true, outsiders can never judge foreign cultures at that time. [59 L]

If we can not judge our own culture, we can not judge culture at all and moral reasoning becomes impossible. [59 R, 2 - 3]

If moral isolationism is realistic, cultures are separated from one another and are isolated populations. [58 L]

I = moral isolationism is true, J = ability to judge other cultures, M = ability to judge my culture, R = moral related ability

In Mary Midgley's "Try a New Sword to Man", she can explain what moral isolationism is. As she defines, moral isolationism is simply to deny that we never understand any culture except our own culture, we will judge it. "(Midgely) . She also shared some of her insight about ethics. She said, "Those who recommend this, I think that the world is divided into various societies with their own ideologies, blocked troops." (Mickey)

At Mary Midgley's she tried to explicitly debate from the perspective of ethical relativists using a new sword. If people can not understand other cultures, they should not judge them. This view leads to the concept of moral isolationism. That is the conclusion that the world can be divided into societies separated from ideas and systems of their own. Through Midori's work, she believes that it is impossible to understand new things and ideas if culture is separated from other cultures. Also, if it is necessary to separate cultures from each other, they also insist that society will divide because it itself is composed of people's backgrounds. In other words, her last argument is that there is a world that everyone must live, both morally and physically. Therefore, it should not be isolated from different cultures.