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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... political phi- losophy, have been studying (let us further suppose) the English tradi- tion, then in its infancy. Rosencrantz, a sort of socialist or collectivist liberal (with a utilitarian bent), asks Hamlet to take into consideration ...
... political phi- losophy, have been studying (let us further suppose) the English tradi- tion, then in its infancy. Rosencrantz, a sort of socialist or collectivist liberal (with a utilitarian bent), asks Hamlet to take into consideration ...
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... political distinctions . Some traditions require human sacrifice , while Christian- ity has always maintained a respect for innocent life . When an abortion clinic opens in a predominantly Italian Catholic section of Gotham , members of ...
... political distinctions . Some traditions require human sacrifice , while Christian- ity has always maintained a respect for innocent life . When an abortion clinic opens in a predominantly Italian Catholic section of Gotham , members of ...
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... political idealism can produce brilliant utopian theories, such as Plato's Republic and More's Utopia, but it can often lead to an indifference toward everyday 8 The Morality of Everyday Life life. Although Americans are 02 Fleming intr ...
... political idealism can produce brilliant utopian theories, such as Plato's Republic and More's Utopia, but it can often lead to an indifference toward everyday 8 The Morality of Everyday Life life. Although Americans are 02 Fleming intr ...
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... political and cultural avant-garde, has quite rightly been regarded as the laboratory for every sort of liberal experiment. America is the first universal nation (to use Ben Wattenberg's phrase), cut loose from all the local patriotisms ...
... political and cultural avant-garde, has quite rightly been regarded as the laboratory for every sort of liberal experiment. America is the first universal nation (to use Ben Wattenberg's phrase), cut loose from all the local patriotisms ...
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... Political Theory : Religion and Politics in the Mishnah , 1-6 , 180–200 ) . Introduction 11 1787), whose Theologia Moralis was regarded for nearly 02 Fleming intr , p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 10 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD : Pxt jobs disk.
... Political Theory : Religion and Politics in the Mishnah , 1-6 , 180–200 ) . Introduction 11 1787), whose Theologia Moralis was regarded for nearly 02 Fleming intr , p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 10 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD : Pxt jobs disk.
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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