Multiple Choice Quiz

Midgley defines "moral isolationism" as the view that:

denies that we can ever understand any culture except our own well enough to make judgments about it.

respect and tolerance forbids us ever to take up a critical position to any other culture.

moral judgment is a kind of coinage valid only in its country of origin.

all of the above.

Midgley claims that to respect people:

we have to know enough about them to make a favorable judgment.

we have to be able to tolerate them within our own culture.

we have to know what it is like for them to live in our world.

we need to have experienced their "way of life."

Midgley argues that it is impossible to praise or blame others, if we could not in principle:

criticize them.

understand them.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

According to Midgley, if we can't judge other cultures we cannot judge our own because:

other societies provide the range of comparison.

we rely on the judgments of other societies.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

Midgley claims that when we judge something to be bad or good, better or worse than something else:

we are taking it as something to promote or preserve.

we are taking it as an example to aim at or avoid.

we are making a moral mistake.

our statements are meaningless.

According to Midgley, we could not condemn insolence if we thought that:

our condemnations were just quirks of our own culture.?

Nietzsche was right.

non-cognitivists were right.

none of the above.

Midgley maintains that if we accept something as a serious moral truth about one culture:

we cannot refuse to apply it to other cultures as well.

we need not apply it to other cultures as well.

we may permissibly apply it to other similar cultures.

we act impermissibly by apply it to other cultures.

Midgley claims that cultures are:

no sealed box.

a fertile jungle of different influences.

formed out of many streams.

all of the above.

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