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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... story may be more than escape: it can be a contact with a better world. This was the case of the young Dean Koontz, who grew up to write his own escapist fantasies. In Koontz's thriller The Voice of the Night, a troubled boy takes ...
... story may be more than escape: it can be a contact with a better world. This was the case of the young Dean Koontz, who grew up to write his own escapist fantasies. In Koontz's thriller The Voice of the Night, a troubled boy takes ...
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... stories is part of a deliberate plan to lead readers out of the algebraic simplicities of schoolroom morals and into the complex labyrinth of moral reality . Plato relied on dialogue for a process of intellectual clarification ; St ...
... stories is part of a deliberate plan to lead readers out of the algebraic simplicities of schoolroom morals and into the complex labyrinth of moral reality . Plato relied on dialogue for a process of intellectual clarification ; St ...
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... story of a man who is beaten, robbed, and stripped of his clothing. A priest and a Levite pass Hell and Other People 27 by without stopping , “ 03 Fleming ch1, Page 26 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM.
... story of a man who is beaten, robbed, and stripped of his clothing. A priest and a Levite pass Hell and Other People 27 by without stopping , “ 03 Fleming ch1, Page 26 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM.
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... story , which puts the problem of faith and works in a different light . While Martha attempts to show her greater zeal by performing menial services , her sister Mary sits and listens to the Master's words ( Luke 10 : 38–42 ) . The ...
... story , which puts the problem of faith and works in a different light . While Martha attempts to show her greater zeal by performing menial services , her sister Mary sits and listens to the Master's words ( Luke 10 : 38–42 ) . The ...
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... : “I once asked him if he believed the story of the destruction of Lisbon by an earthquake when it first happened: 'Oh! not for six months,' said 03 Fleming ch1, Page 38 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM.
... : “I once asked him if he believed the story of the destruction of Lisbon by an earthquake when it first happened: 'Oh! not for six months,' said 03 Fleming ch1, Page 38 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM.
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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