The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal TraditionFleming offers an alternative to enlightened liberalism, where moral and political problems are looked at from an objective point of view and a decision made from a distant perspective that is both rational and universally applied to all comparable cases. He instead places importance on the particular, the local, and moral complexity, advocating a return to premodern traditions for a solution to ethical predicaments. In his view, liberalism and postmodernism ignore the fact that human beings by their very nature refuse to live in a world of abstractions where the attachments of friends, neighbors, family, and country make no difference. Fleming believes that a modern type of "casuistry" should be applied to moral conflicts, using examples from history, literature, and religion to explain this moral ecology that refuses to divorce organisms from their interactions with each other and with their environment. |
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... America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 08 07 06 05 04 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Fleming , Thomas ... American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , Z39.48 , 1984 . Designer ...
... America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 08 07 06 05 04 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Fleming , Thomas ... American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , Z39.48 , 1984 . Designer ...
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... Republic and More's Utopia, but it can often lead to an indifference toward everyday 8 The Morality of Everyday Life life. Although Americans are 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 7 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
... Republic and More's Utopia, but it can often lead to an indifference toward everyday 8 The Morality of Everyday Life life. Although Americans are 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 7 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
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... American know-how and the Yankee can-do attitude seem inevitably to produce a sterile idealism that is abstract without being noble, banal without having the charm of provincialism. Idealists have appeared in many nations, but America ...
... American know-how and the Yankee can-do attitude seem inevitably to produce a sterile idealism that is abstract without being noble, banal without having the charm of provincialism. Idealists have appeared in many nations, but America ...
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... American) tradi- tions. The distinction is not purely ancient versus modern. Stoics and Epicureans (and even Plato) furnished many weapons to modern liber- als, while Hume and Nietzsche (among others) were highly critical of central ...
... American) tradi- tions. The distinction is not purely ancient versus modern. Stoics and Epicureans (and even Plato) furnished many weapons to modern liber- als, while Hume and Nietzsche (among others) were highly critical of central ...
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... America had embraced the universal moral abstractions of Locke and Leibniz, which eliminated, so it was thought, the need for analyz- ing particular relationships and particular cases. During the same cen- tury, however, English ...
... America had embraced the universal moral abstractions of Locke and Leibniz, which eliminated, so it was thought, the need for analyz- ing particular relationships and particular cases. During the same cen- tury, however, English ...
Contents
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Too Much Reality | 69 |
Growing Up Unabsurd | 95 |
Problems of Perspective | 135 |
The Myth of Individualism | 167 |
Goodbye Old Rights of Man | 194 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 251 |
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