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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... centuries, though, in the past two years, the Ruthenian government has been cracking down on the Carpathian minority, which has mounted a terrorist campaign in an effort to gain independence. As a NATO official collecting evidence, you ...
... centuries, though, in the past two years, the Ruthenian government has been cracking down on the Carpathian minority, which has mounted a terrorist campaign in an effort to gain independence. As a NATO official collecting evidence, you ...
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... century) ethical tradition, which, for the sake of convenience, I am calling liber- alism. Although liberalism in recent decades usually signifies the milder forms of state socialism, and conservatism is used to refer to the ideol- ogy ...
... century) ethical tradition, which, for the sake of convenience, I am calling liber- alism. Although liberalism in recent decades usually signifies the milder forms of state socialism, and conservatism is used to refer to the ideol- ogy ...
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... century , when rigorist Jansenists contended against what they regarded as the moral laxity of the Jesuits . The compromise position , often referred to as probabilism , was elaborated by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( 1696– 3. Jacob ...
... century , when rigorist Jansenists contended against what they regarded as the moral laxity of the Jesuits . The compromise position , often referred to as probabilism , was elaborated by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( 1696– 3. Jacob ...
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... centuries as the standard manual on casuistry. The primary purpose of such man- uals was not the instruction of laymen ... century, Protestant Europe and North America had embraced the universal moral abstractions of Locke and Leibniz ...
... centuries as the standard manual on casuistry. The primary purpose of such man- uals was not the instruction of laymen ... century, Protestant Europe and North America had embraced the universal moral abstractions of Locke and Leibniz ...
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... century Jansenists tried to plant their cold and austere moral absolutism in the lush soil of the Mediterranean world, banishing all that was not perfectly good to the realm of evil; contemporary ethicists, arguing that there is a moral ...
... century Jansenists tried to plant their cold and austere moral absolutism in the lush soil of the Mediterranean world, banishing all that was not perfectly good to the realm of evil; contemporary ethicists, arguing that there is a moral ...
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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