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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... religious quarrel between the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Incidents of violence and repres- sion, committed by ... religion, and the Ruthenian government may not be permitted to deprive its citizens of these and other fundamental ...
... religious quarrel between the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Incidents of violence and repres- sion, committed by ... religion, and the Ruthenian government may not be permitted to deprive its citizens of these and other fundamental ...
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... religions . Despite the usual rhetoric about the “ world's great religions , " however , different traditions of faith often ... religious reasons for wanting to protest abortions , just as she does for believing that it is in the public ...
... religions . Despite the usual rhetoric about the “ world's great religions , " however , different traditions of faith often ... religious reasons for wanting to protest abortions , just as she does for believing that it is in the public ...
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... religious conscience , between staying with his unit or returning home to save his family from distress . In the pre ... Religion and Politics in the Mishnah , 1-6 , 180–200 ) . Introduction 11 1787), whose Theologia Moralis was regarded ...
... religious conscience , between staying with his unit or returning home to save his family from distress . In the pre ... Religion and Politics in the Mishnah , 1-6 , 180–200 ) . Introduction 11 1787), whose Theologia Moralis was regarded ...
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... religious obligation but to invoke the equally valid counterprin- ciples that force an imperfect compromise. “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,” was Jesus' answer to the Pharisees who criticized Him for gathering ...
... religious obligation but to invoke the equally valid counterprin- ciples that force an imperfect compromise. “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,” was Jesus' answer to the Pharisees who criticized Him for gathering ...
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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