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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... 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, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 7 Allan S Johnson ...
... 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, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 7 Allan S Johnson ...
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... theory of modernity.”2 Some postmodern intellectuals have criticized the liberal consensus from Descartes to John Rawls as nothing more than an arti- fact of the modern West. Alasdair MacIntyre, H. G. Gadamer, radical feminists, some ...
... theory of modernity.”2 Some postmodern intellectuals have criticized the liberal consensus from Descartes to John Rawls as nothing more than an arti- fact of the modern West. Alasdair MacIntyre, H. G. Gadamer, radical feminists, some ...
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... morality, taking precedence over the duties of citizenship or the claims of humanity. 10 The Morality of Everyday Life In the modern theories 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 9 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
... morality, taking precedence over the duties of citizenship or the claims of humanity. 10 The Morality of Everyday Life In the modern theories 02 Fleming intr, p 1-17 1/23/04 12:28 PM Page 9 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD:Pxt jobs disk #
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... theories , moral conflicts can almost always be resolved into a choice between right and wrong , between human ... Theory : Religion and Politics in the Mishnah , 1-6 , 180–200 ) . Introduction 11 1787), whose Theologia Moralis was ...
... theories , moral conflicts can almost always be resolved into a choice between right and wrong , between human ... Theory : Religion and Politics in the Mishnah , 1-6 , 180–200 ) . Introduction 11 1787), whose Theologia Moralis was ...
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... , Enquiry concerning Political Justice , 190 . 2. See John Rawls , A Theory of Justice , 150 . 20 The Morality of Everyday Life It is not for 03 Fleming ch1 , p 18-41 1/23/04 12:29 PM Page 19 Allan S Johnson Al's G4 HD : Pxt jobs disk.
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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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