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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... languages or enough of the history of either people to form an intelligent opinion, and even though you will never ... language of international human rights: All people everywhere have a right to use their own lan- guage, form their ...
... languages or enough of the history of either people to form an intelligent opinion, and even though you will never ... language of international human rights: All people everywhere have a right to use their own lan- guage, form their ...
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... language . In answer to Plato's vision of a perfect justice , Aristotle repeat- edly reminds us of our humanity and the folly of any effort to rise above our nature . Justice cannot be reduced to simple universals , because different ...
... language . In answer to Plato's vision of a perfect justice , Aristotle repeat- edly reminds us of our humanity and the folly of any effort to rise above our nature . Justice cannot be reduced to simple universals , because different ...
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... language and ceremonies of their Roman and Holy Roman predeces- sors . The dream of international order , in other words , could also be made to serve the ends of a national state . The Duke of Sully might con- ceivably have called for ...
... language and ceremonies of their Roman and Holy Roman predeces- sors . The dream of international order , in other words , could also be made to serve the ends of a national state . The Duke of Sully might con- ceivably have called for ...
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... language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them , which they have imagined to do . Go to , let us go down , and there confound their language , that they may not understand one another's speech ...
... language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them , which they have imagined to do . Go to , let us go down , and there confound their language , that they may not understand one another's speech ...
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... language” (Acts 2:5–6), this was a spiritual and not a political unity. Augustine himself (in the preface to Civitas Dei) told his readers not to believe that the end of all earthly states was at hand but to put their hope in God. A ...
... language” (Acts 2:5–6), this was a spiritual and not a political unity. Augustine himself (in the preface to Civitas Dei) told his readers not to believe that the end of all earthly states was at hand but to put their hope in God. A ...
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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