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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... Italian Catholic section of Gotham , members of the “ right - to - life ” movement debate what they can do to stop the killing . One young mother is in a quandary , not knowing if she should take time away from her children , whom she ...
... Italian Catholic section of Gotham , members of the “ right - to - life ” movement debate what they can do to stop the killing . One young mother is in a quandary , not knowing if she should take time away from her children , whom she ...
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... tradition. But few of them have been prepared. 2. John Gray, Liberalism, 90. 09. Much of the class antagonism of medieval Italian cities 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 8 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
... tradition. But few of them have been prepared. 2. John Gray, Liberalism, 90. 09. Much of the class antagonism of medieval Italian cities 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 8 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
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... Italian, French, and English aristocracies.9 Early Greek morality is not universal but particular: “It may be said ... Italian cities was between the Germanic aristocracy and the Roman-Italian middle classes. 10. Dover, Greek Popular ...
... Italian, French, and English aristocracies.9 Early Greek morality is not universal but particular: “It may be said ... Italian cities was between the Germanic aristocracy and the Roman-Italian middle classes. 10. Dover, Greek Popular ...
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... Italian village, concluded: “The ideas of right and wrong which are the peasant's own ... relate mostly to the central theme 44 The Morality of Everyday Life of his existence : 04 Fleming ch2, p 42-68 1/23/04 12:30 PM Page 43 Allan S ...
... Italian village, concluded: “The ideas of right and wrong which are the peasant's own ... relate mostly to the central theme 44 The Morality of Everyday Life of his existence : 04 Fleming ch2, p 42-68 1/23/04 12:30 PM Page 43 Allan S ...
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... Italian peninsula before the sixth century B.C. and lasted in the West until the end of the fifth century A.D. (and in the East until less than fifty years before Columbus's discovery of America). Though the empire encouraged the use of ...
... Italian peninsula before the sixth century B.C. and lasted in the West until the end of the fifth century A.D. (and in the East until less than fifty years before Columbus's discovery of America). Though the empire encouraged the use of ...
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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