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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... unpleasant con- sequences for the husbands and children who depend upon a wife and Introduction 7 mother's support and affection. And how is it 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 6 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
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... depend upon the ethical flavor of the week for which she has a craving . Viewed from the perspective of actual nursing mothers , both selfish individualism and altruism must appear like so many discarded nurs- ery toys — children's ...
... depend upon the ethical flavor of the week for which she has a craving . Viewed from the perspective of actual nursing mothers , both selfish individualism and altruism must appear like so many discarded nurs- ery toys — children's ...
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... depend upon him for support and protection . In cases of mere charitable assistance , the individual , Christian or not , has to recognize ( with Augustine ) that his resources are limited and that his existing obligations take ...
... depend upon him for support and protection . In cases of mere charitable assistance , the individual , Christian or not , has to recognize ( with Augustine ) that his resources are limited and that his existing obligations take ...
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... depend- ents whom he did not turn out “ because if I did not assist them , no one else would . " Over and over throughout his life , Johnson evinced a concern for the poor . A high Tory in politics — at times a Jacobite — he suspected ...
... depend- ents whom he did not turn out “ because if I did not assist them , no one else would . " Over and over throughout his life , Johnson evinced a concern for the poor . A high Tory in politics — at times a Jacobite — he suspected ...
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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