Assignment #6

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PART ONE
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QUESTION #1: If an action that is praised in, one culture may be condemned in another, wouldit be correct to say that all moral values are relative to the culture they are found in.

ANSWER 1A:

If an action that is praised in, one culture may be condemned in another, it is correct to say that all moral values are relative to the culture they are found in. In this case, I would say that is praised in one culture may not be condemned in another. According to the textbook is mentioned about multiculturalism that every race or ethic group has its own values and characteristic behaviors, that no group’s values are better or worse than any other’s, and criticism of another culture’s ideas and actions is depending on their a moral choice. All moral values are relative to the culture they are found in because culture encompasses the set of beliefs, moral values, traditions, language, and laws (or rules of behavior) held in common by a nation, a community, or other defined group of people. Culturally determined characteristics include the language spoken at home, religious observances, customs (including marriage customs that often accompany religious and other beliefs), acceptable gender roles and occupations, dietary practices, intellectual, artistic, and leisure-time pursuits, and other aspects of behavior. For an example, in the United States is nations with large immigrant populations, there is a wide range of cultural diversity, religious beliefs, customs, and values, reflecting the scattered origins of the people. The "melting-pot" concept of nationality reduces this diversity with successive generations, but considerable variation remains—distinguishing rural from urban, African American from European, East Asian from South Asian, and religious believers from secularists.

ANSWER 1B:

P: all moral values are related to differences among culture.
P: Culture has differences aspect of a moral value.
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C: Therefore, it is not correct to say that all moral values are relative to the culture they are found in.


QUESTION #2: Isn’t it a mark of ignorance to pass judgments on other cultures or to claim that one culture is better than another?
ANSWER 2A:

It is not a mark of ignorance to pass judgment on other cultures or to claim that one culture is better than another. Before we make a judgment on another, we have to understand the context in which it occurred. We have of determining which customs, codes, beliefs, values, and behaviors are wise and which are foolish is to examine them carefully and judgment them honestly and fairly. Sometime making a judgment of other culture is never appropriate because in some cases the necessity of making moral judgments about other cultures and subcultures is not pass acknowledge. Every cultures or our own culture have in some mystical way to get away the effects of human fallibility does a disservice to the subject of ethics and to the men and women in every culture who have striven for moral excellence.

ANSWER 2B:
P: we cannot make a judgment to another culture base on their affair

P: sometime one must pass a judgment on another culture be able to understand their system.
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C: Therefore it is NOT a mark of ignorance to pass on other cultures.



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PART TWO
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See page 63 in our text. Choose one inquiry, from inquiries 3 – 11. Briefly describe the inquiry as the first part of your answer, so your readers know which one you chose. Discuss whether or not the action / decision in each case is ethical. And then, put your argument in equation form. Try to include an ethical principle as one of your premises, as modeled below...

I chose inquiry three and the paragraph describes about Chinese woman have birth to a daughter rather than a son. Her husband wants a son to maintain family line. Later he punished her by withholding money and hitting her without provocation. He divorced her and he moved them to live in apartment. When his daughter sick, he left her to die. Her husband is not ethical person because he dose not understand that his wife is not god. She cannot tell him in advance that unborn child is a son. He has to understand that he cannot against mother nature. Whatever the god give to him, he has to accept it.

Arguable: whether or not Hua husband decision is a morally acceptable.
P: he decision is not ethical principle.
P: his culture value is so ancient and strong. (moral principle is base on human life).

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C: Therefore Hua husband decision is not a morally acceptable.