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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... human rights: All people everywhere have a right to use their own lan- guage, form their own communities, and practice their own religion, and the Ruthenian government may not be permitted to deprive its citizens of these and other ...
... human rights: All people everywhere have a right to use their own lan- guage, form their own communities, and practice their own religion, and the Ruthenian government may not be permitted to deprive its citizens of these and other ...
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... human rights of the unborn , but the young mother has learned from her Cal- abrian grandmother that it is often better to mind your own business and do whatever good you can in the sphere of life in which you find yourself . Should she ...
... human rights of the unborn , but the young mother has learned from her Cal- abrian grandmother that it is often better to mind your own business and do whatever good you can in the sphere of life in which you find yourself . Should she ...
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... right and wrong , between human rights and op- pression . The older tradition was more complex . A soldier might owe loyalty to his commanders and nation but also have conflicting duties to his family and his church . He might be forced ...
... right and wrong , between human rights and op- pression . The older tradition was more complex . A soldier might owe loyalty to his commanders and nation but also have conflicting duties to his family and his church . He might be forced ...
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... rights of pornographers? There is something strange in the spectacle of so much conservative do-gooding. The one essential insight of free-market economics is that human beings are more efficient at providing for their own needs than ...
... rights of pornographers? There is something strange in the spectacle of so much conservative do-gooding. The one essential insight of free-market economics is that human beings are more efficient at providing for their own needs than ...
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... human rights”—have been hard to justify in the event. If democracy American-style is so precious, American leaders might work to improve the domestic article before presuming to ex- port it, at bayonet-point, to Africa, the Caribbean ...
... human rights”—have been hard to justify in the event. If democracy American-style is so precious, American leaders might work to improve the domestic article before presuming to ex- port it, at bayonet-point, to Africa, the Caribbean ...
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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