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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... common answer, which pro-life activists use to defend their protests and rescue missions, is that we all have a duty, when confronted by an emergency, to save a life or prevent injury. This duty, they argue, supersedes any routine ...
... common answer, which pro-life activists use to defend their protests and rescue missions, is that we all have a duty, when confronted by an emergency, to save a life or prevent injury. This duty, they argue, supersedes any routine ...
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... common sense of ordinary people than they are to the thought of most modern philoso- phers. As the liberal tradition has unfolded, it has made increasingly impossible demands upon men and women who, confronted with the choice between ...
... common sense of ordinary people than they are to the thought of most modern philoso- phers. As the liberal tradition has unfolded, it has made increasingly impossible demands upon men and women who, confronted with the choice between ...
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... common; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jansenists tried to plant their cold and austere moral absolutism in the lush soil of the Mediterranean world, banishing all that was not perfectly good to the realm of evil; contemporary ...
... common; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jansenists tried to plant their cold and austere moral absolutism in the lush soil of the Mediterranean world, banishing all that was not perfectly good to the realm of evil; contemporary ...
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... common good or to complete moral indifference to other people . Religious conservatives are not the only people to have felt uneasy with the dichotomy between the principle of merit and the principle of equality and with any plan that ...
... common good or to complete moral indifference to other people . Religious conservatives are not the only people to have felt uneasy with the dichotomy between the principle of merit and the principle of equality and with any plan that ...
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... common sense and traditional wisdom . Ordinary people seem to need a nontechnical casuistry that accords . the real problems of everyday life the serious attention they deserve , an attention that is often ( though certainly not always ) ...
... common sense and traditional wisdom . Ordinary people seem to need a nontechnical casuistry that accords . the real problems of everyday life the serious attention they deserve , an attention that is often ( though certainly not always ) ...
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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