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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... by the ghost of his father,the last real king of Denmark.In fact,one of Hamlet's primary concerns is theological: His father, who died without benefit of confession or the rites of the Church, is a 2 The Morality of Everyday Life.
... by the ghost of his father,the last real king of Denmark.In fact,one of Hamlet's primary concerns is theological: His father, who died without benefit of confession or the rites of the Church, is a 2 The Morality of Everyday Life.
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... Church's moral teachings, which have been anticipated both by Hebrew prophets and pagan philosophers. At least my moral sense comes (so I believe) as a divine revelation from God and his Church, while you do not even pretend to believe ...
... Church's moral teachings, which have been anticipated both by Hebrew prophets and pagan philosophers. At least my moral sense comes (so I believe) as a divine revelation from God and his Church, while you do not even pretend to believe ...
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... churches. Incidents of violence and repression, committed by both sides, go back several centuries, though, in the past two years, the Ruthenian government has been cracking down on the Carpathian minority, which has mounted a terrorist ...
... churches. Incidents of violence and repression, committed by both sides, go back several centuries, though, in the past two years, the Ruthenian government has been cracking down on the Carpathian minority, which has mounted a terrorist ...
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... church.He might be forced to choose between obeying orders or obeying his religious conscience, between staying with his unit or returning home to save his family from distress. In the pre- modern era, such conflicts were taken ...
... church.He might be forced to choose between obeying orders or obeying his religious conscience, between staying with his unit or returning home to save his family from distress. In the pre- modern era, such conflicts were taken ...
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... Church was already falling under the spell of a rigid neo-Thomism that was as abstract as any German school of philosophy, and Protestants had either adopted the liberal philosophy of John Locke and Adam Smith wholesale or else ...
... Church was already falling under the spell of a rigid neo-Thomism that was as abstract as any German school of philosophy, and Protestants had either adopted the liberal philosophy of John Locke and Adam Smith wholesale or else ...
Contents
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Too Much Reality | 69 |
Growing Up Unabsurd | 94 |
Problems of Perspective | 135 |
The Myth of Individualism | 167 |
Goodbye Old Rights of Man | 194 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Index | 251 |
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