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Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Moral-Problems-James-White/dp/0534584306/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233793391&sr=8-1

Quote:  “One might say that liberty and equality are being found inadequate without fratenity”

What I expect to learn:

    I expect to learn what is ethical and nonethical in the justice system.

Book Review:

“Annette Baier (née Stoop) (born 1929) is a well-known moral philosopher and Hume scholar, focusing in particular on Hume's moral psychology. For most of her career she taught in the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh, having moved there from Carnegie Mellon University. She retired to her native Dunedin, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Otago. She is also well known for her contributions to feminist philosophy and to the philosophy of mind, where she was strongly influenced by her former colleague, Wilfrid Sellars. Her husband is the philosopher Kurt Baier.

She is a former President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, an office reserved for the elite of her profession. Baier received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Otago in 1999. In October 2007, Baier was ranked 72nd in a list of "Top 100 living geniuses" compiled by The Daily Telegraph.” (Wikipedia. Retrieved Febrauary 8, 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/Annette_Baier)

    Justice is given to us the state and develops by other humans like us who sees to protect the interest of our well being. We need to know and renew and apply those values of the past to our present. We do not need to abandoned the old ones we only to rethink it and apply it if needed. The wrong thing about Kantian extends that equal rights to all ration beings including women and minorities is that they over extend it and did not put boundaries to it. I think he would say that is only right to have equal rights to all.

What I learned:

    I learned that ethics are way further the reach of justice.

Review Question:

1.    Distinguish between the justice and care perspective. According to Gilligan, how do these perspectives develop?

•    Justice is given to us the state and develops by other humans like us who sees to protect the interest of our well being, while care perspective is being given to us by our loves in life. These perspectives develop throughout the years as you grow up.

 2.    Explain Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. What criticism do Gilligan and Baier make of this theory?

•    Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is about religion, while Gilligan and Baier is based on morals in the society.

3.    Baier says there are important differences between Kantian liberals and their critics. What are these differences?

•    Kantian liberals is more about freedom of choice while his critics is about religions.

4.    Why does Baier attack the Kantian view that the reason should control unruly passions?

•    Baier attact the Kantian view of reason because it is based on freedom to choose, so not everyone can choose from themselves because not all can have a good decision in life.

Discussion Question:

1.    What does Baier mean when she speaks of the need “to transvalue the values of our patriarchal past”? Do new values replace the old ones? If so, then do we abandon the old values of justice, freedom, and rights?

•    We need to know and renew and apply those values of the past to our present. We do not need to abandoned the old ones we only to rethink it and apply it if needed.

2.    What is wrong with Kantian view that extends equal rights to all rational beings, including women and minorities? What would Baier say? What do you think?

•    The wrong thing about Kantian extends that equal rights to all ration beings including women and minorities is that they over extend it and did not put boundaries to it. I think he would say that is only right to have equal rights to all. For me yes it is right to have equality but it should have limitations.

3.    Baier seems to reject the Kantian emphasis on freedom of choice, Granted, we do not choose our parents, but still don’t we have freedom of choice about many things, and isn’t this very important?

•    Yes, we don’t have many choices in this life but we can make choices in this life by creating it.

Integrative Questions:

1.    What is right?

2.    Is equality good?

3.    When to have equality?

4.    Does right apply to equality?

5.    Is rational being good or not?