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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... Citizens of the World 42 3. Too Much Reality 69 4. Growing Up Unabsurd 94 5. Problems of Perspective 135 6. The Myth of Individualism 167 7. Goodbye, Old Rights of Man 194 Bibliography 235 Index 251 THE MORALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE ...
... Citizens of the World 42 3. Too Much Reality 69 4. Growing Up Unabsurd 94 5. Problems of Perspective 135 6. The Myth of Individualism 167 7. Goodbye, Old Rights of Man 194 Bibliography 235 Index 251 THE MORALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE ...
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... citizen who wonders about the limits of his civic duty. You go to bed early, because you have to leave for work by 6 a.m. Several times a month, however, you are awakened by your neighbors, who come home late and get into a screaming ...
... citizen who wonders about the limits of his civic duty. You go to bed early, because you have to leave for work by 6 a.m. Several times a month, however, you are awakened by your neighbors, who come home late and get into a screaming ...
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... citizens of these and other fundamental rights, even if it correctly per- ceives that its traditions and customs, which had been systematically violated in earlier centuries when the Carpathians controlled the coun- try, would be ...
... citizens of these and other fundamental rights, even if it correctly per- ceives that its traditions and customs, which had been systematically violated in earlier centuries when the Carpathians controlled the coun- try, would be ...
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... citizens to discharge their responsibility to save the lives of people whom they might never meet in the ordinary course of life? Not relatives, friends, and neighbors—people over whom they might have some influence— but total strangers ...
... citizens to discharge their responsibility to save the lives of people whom they might never meet in the ordinary course of life? Not relatives, friends, and neighbors—people over whom they might have some influence— but total strangers ...
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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