Ethics and Pashtunwali

Normative ethical motive is my favorite branch of ethics; philosophically speaking. Normative ethics is when genius questions how one ought to act. This type of ethics studies on the mortals ethical action. When I read the book, The Lone Survivor, I was automatically intrigued by the prescriptive ethics that was written by the author. Giving that it was a unbowed story, made that much more(prenominal) captivated in my eyes. When interpret the book, I was introduced to Pashtunwali. While attainment what Pashtunwali was, I was opened to a whole new penetration of ethics. After conducting more hours of look for on Pashtunwali, I agnise that other countries in the demesne need to learn this organise of normative ethics.\nPashtuns are derived from Pakistan and Afghanistan. nevertheless though Pashtunwali is an ethic and non a religion, it is believed that it precludes the religion of Islams. Therefore, because Muslim nations still to this day sunnily employment Pashtunwa li, it does not counteract Islamic teachings. While the practice is carried out in the fig of religion, it is more correctly mute as resulting from a curiously Pashtun interpretation of Islam through the optical prism of Pashtunwali (B. Shaffer). Pashtunwali is actually an unwritten decree. It is a code that is translated as, The code of lifespan and honor. There are many an(prenominal) key principles that make up what Pashtunwali is. Ultimately, the code of life honors the egis given to a person against his or her own enemies; it requires that a host defends a lymph node with his life, no matter how or why. The tribal code, Pashtunwali, has heave demands: hospitality, generosity, and the calling to avenge even the slightest aggravate (M. Luttrell). There are many principles for the code of Pashtunwali, all of which greatly define, the unselfishness of their ethnicity.\nNanawatai, is one of the principles of the Pashtunwali code that states that a host has to allow to protection from their enemies to one who requests it, no matter wh...