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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... Roman view of duty , comprehensive as it is , imposes no unusual bur- den of obligation ; in fact , it is only a ... Romans , Jews and Assyrians all made the obvious distinctions between neighbors and strangers , kin and non - kin ...
... Roman view of duty , comprehensive as it is , imposes no unusual bur- den of obligation ; in fact , it is only a ... Romans , Jews and Assyrians all made the obvious distinctions between neighbors and strangers , kin and non - kin ...
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... Roman republic . The reactionary Greek poet Theognis 5. Douglas M. MacDowell , The Law in Classical Athens , 75–76 . 6. See K. J. Dover , Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle , 180–81 . 7. Virginia Hunter , Policing ...
... Roman republic . The reactionary Greek poet Theognis 5. Douglas M. MacDowell , The Law in Classical Athens , 75–76 . 6. See K. J. Dover , Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle , 180–81 . 7. Virginia Hunter , Policing ...
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... Roman-Italian middle classes. 10. Dover, Greek Popular Morality, 273. 11. David Cohen, Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of 03 Fleming ch1, Page 24 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM.
... Roman-Italian middle classes. 10. Dover, Greek Popular Morality, 273. 11. David Cohen, Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of 03 Fleming ch1, Page 24 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM.
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... Romans, narrow-minded as they were, professed to be shocked by Jewish parochialism and its double standard, which they took as evi- dence that Jews (and, later on, Christians) were misanthropists. Jewish suspicion of aliens extended ...
... Romans, narrow-minded as they were, professed to be shocked by Jewish parochialism and its double standard, which they took as evi- dence that Jews (and, later on, Christians) were misanthropists. Jewish suspicion of aliens extended ...
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... Roman state had a right to confiscate the young man's wealth in order to alle- viate famine in Gaul. The rich, Jesus concluded—and among the rich He might have in- cluded over half the population of the United States today—have as much ...
... Roman state had a right to confiscate the young man's wealth in order to alle- viate famine in Gaul. The rich, Jesus concluded—and among the rich He might have in- cluded over half the population of the United States today—have as much ...
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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