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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... John Locke and Ayn Rand, and, as a budding anarcho-individualist liberal, asks the prince to consider what is in it for himself, deriding all superstitious attachments to father and mother: “Kill Claudius and seize the throne, by all ...
... John Locke and Ayn Rand, and, as a budding anarcho-individualist liberal, asks the prince to consider what is in it for himself, deriding all superstitious attachments to father and mother: “Kill Claudius and seize the throne, by all ...
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... explain his curious acceptance of Purgatory. See Eric Sams,The Real Shake- speare: Retrieving the Early Years. 2. John Gray, Liberalism, 90. 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 3 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
... explain his curious acceptance of Purgatory. See Eric Sams,The Real Shake- speare: Retrieving the Early Years. 2. John Gray, Liberalism, 90. 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 3 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
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... John Rawls and hardly ever departs from a style of analysis in which only individuals and states are actors. The liberal perspective is farsighted in both senses of the term. Liberals, in freeing themselves from the shackles of ...
... John Rawls and hardly ever departs from a style of analysis in which only individuals and states are actors. The liberal perspective is farsighted in both senses of the term. Liberals, in freeing themselves from the shackles of ...
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... John Rawls as nothing more than an arti- fact of the modern West. Alasdair MacIntyre, H. G. Gadamer, radical feminists, some communitarian leftists, deconstructionists, and neo- Freudians, have all been troubled by the smug uniformity ...
... John Rawls as nothing more than an arti- fact of the modern West. Alasdair MacIntyre, H. G. Gadamer, radical feminists, some communitarian leftists, deconstructionists, and neo- Freudians, have all been troubled by the smug uniformity ...
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... John Locke and Adam Smith wholesale or else retreated into the austere rigorism of a puritanical Calvinism that not only eliminated the pleasures of everyday life but also set the moral bar so high that virtually no one could jump over ...
... John Locke and Adam Smith wholesale or else retreated into the austere rigorism of a puritanical Calvinism that not only eliminated the pleasures of everyday life but also set the moral bar so high that virtually no one could jump over ...
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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