The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal TraditionUniversity of Missouri Press, 2004 - 270 páginas Fleming 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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... Athenian felt his first duty was to his par- ents ... , his second to his kinsmen, and his third to his friends and bene- factors; after that, in descending order, to his fellow-citizens, to citizens of other Greek states, to barbaroi ...
... Athenian felt his first duty was to his par- ents ... , his second to his kinsmen, and his third to his friends and bene- factors; after that, in descending order, to his fellow-citizens, to citizens of other Greek states, to barbaroi ...
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... Athenians must defend the empire to preserve their peace. It has been argued, albeit unconvincingly, that Athenian apragmosyne was “un-Greek.”12 On the contrary, it was the excessive public demands made by the Athenian democracy that is ...
... Athenians must defend the empire to preserve their peace. It has been argued, albeit unconvincingly, that Athenian apragmosyne was “un-Greek.”12 On the contrary, it was the excessive public demands made by the Athenian democracy that is ...
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... Athenian had to justify herself for informing on an adulterer , but what if the sin is a more serious crime ? One of the differences , it is said , between Europe and the United States is the Amer- ican willingness to collaborate with ...
... Athenian had to justify herself for informing on an adulterer , but what if the sin is a more serious crime ? One of the differences , it is said , between Europe and the United States is the Amer- ican willingness to collaborate with ...
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... Athenians sharply distinguished be- tween citizens and strangers . In international relations , the Athenians at the height of their power acted without restraint , condemning the people of Melos — who only wanted to preserve their ...
... Athenians sharply distinguished be- tween citizens and strangers . In international relations , the Athenians at the height of their power acted without restraint , condemning the people of Melos — who only wanted to preserve their ...
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... Athenian or a Corinthian, but that you are a citizen of the world” (Arrian Epicteti Dis- sertationes 1.9). In their utopian moments, the Stoics advocated a com- munity of shared property and wives, but even the founders of the sect ...
... Athenian or a Corinthian, but that you are a citizen of the world” (Arrian Epicteti Dis- sertationes 1.9). In their utopian moments, the Stoics advocated a com- munity of shared property and wives, but even the founders of the sect ...
Contenido
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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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