The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal TraditionUniversity of Missouri Press, 2004 - 270 من الصفحات 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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... charities and leave the rest of my fortune to a foundling hospital . But mankind ? No , sir , my entire fortune would ... charity are worse than humbug ; kindness to the poor , after all , 3. Augustine , De Doctrina Christiana , book 1 ...
... charities and leave the rest of my fortune to a foundling hospital . But mankind ? No , sir , my entire fortune would ... charity are worse than humbug ; kindness to the poor , after all , 3. Augustine , De Doctrina Christiana , book 1 ...
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... charity as a destructive impulse. If he was a scoundrel who manipulates pension funds instead of an honest man of business, his conversion to the religion of philan- thropy would be an easier matter; indeed, it is good business to write ...
... charity as a destructive impulse. If he was a scoundrel who manipulates pension funds instead of an honest man of business, his conversion to the religion of philan- thropy would be an easier matter; indeed, it is good business to write ...
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... Charity begins at home , ” “ The shoemaker should stick to his last , ” and “ There's no place like home ” are the expressions of parochial sentiment , as is all the folk wis- dom on the defects of other nations summed up in phrases ...
... Charity begins at home , ” “ The shoemaker should stick to his last , ” and “ There's no place like home ” are the expressions of parochial sentiment , as is all the folk wis- dom on the defects of other nations summed up in phrases ...
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... charity and in attentiveness to the Master . Jewish blood , circumcision , priestly status , outward conformity — all fall short of the true and inner faith . Directly confronted with human suffering , we are obligated to be merciful ...
... charity and in attentiveness to the Master . Jewish blood , circumcision , priestly status , outward conformity — all fall short of the true and inner faith . Directly confronted with human suffering , we are obligated to be merciful ...
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... charity are part of a full life , they are free to perform them , but the individualist is bound by no such obligation . Both positions are logical , once their counterintuitive premises ( that is , that moral obligations are universal ...
... charity are part of a full life , they are free to perform them , but the individualist is bound by no such obligation . Both positions are logical , once their counterintuitive premises ( that is , that moral obligations are universal ...
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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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