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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... death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. Each of Hamlet's friends would have reasons for regarding him as foolish and immoral, but Hamlet might easily reply to them: “You be- lieve in ...
... death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. Each of Hamlet's friends would have reasons for regarding him as foolish and immoral, but Hamlet might easily reply to them: “You be- lieve in ...
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... The Quiet Athenian. 13. S.C.Humphreys,The Family, Women, and Death: Comparative Studies, 1–32. 14. Macaulay, “Notes on the Indian Penal Code by the 03 Fleming ch1, p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM Page 25 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk.
... The Quiet Athenian. 13. S.C.Humphreys,The Family, Women, and Death: Comparative Studies, 1–32. 14. Macaulay, “Notes on the Indian Penal Code by the 03 Fleming ch1, p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM Page 25 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk.
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... death of their charges are guilty of murder, concedes Macaulay, but “it will hardly be maintained that a man should be punished as a murderer because he omitted to relieve a beggar, even though there might be the clearest proof that the ...
... death of their charges are guilty of murder, concedes Macaulay, but “it will hardly be maintained that a man should be punished as a murderer because he omitted to relieve a beggar, even though there might be the clearest proof that the ...
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... death of his enemies. Voltaire was, in fact, the very model of the modern sen- timentalist. A chronic liar who flattered the very people he was libeling, faithless in love and friendship, he forfeited the esteem of Frederick the Great ...
... death of his enemies. Voltaire was, in fact, the very model of the modern sen- timentalist. A chronic liar who flattered the very people he was libeling, faithless in love and friendship, he forfeited the esteem of Frederick the Great ...
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... Death . 26. John Wain , Samuel Johnson : A Biography , 267. Mrs. Thrale commented : “ The poor ... he really loves them as nobody else does ” ( Piozzi , Anecdotes , 42 ) . Citizens of the World 2 —George Canning, New Morality People 03 ...
... Death . 26. John Wain , Samuel Johnson : A Biography , 267. Mrs. Thrale commented : “ The poor ... he really loves them as nobody else does ” ( Piozzi , Anecdotes , 42 ) . Citizens of the World 2 —George Canning, New Morality People 03 ...
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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