The morality of everyday life : rediscovering an ancient alternative to the liberal tradition / Thomas Fleming.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.Description: 270 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0826215092 (alk. paper)
  • 9780826215093 (alk. paper)
  • 9780826217677 (pbk.)
  • 0826217672 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BJ 1031 .F576 2004
Contents:
Hell and other people -- Citizens of the world -- Too much reality -- Growing up un-absurd -- Problems of perspective -- The myth of individualism -- Goodbye, old rights of man.
Summary: Offers an alternative to the enlightened liberalism espoused by thinkers as different as Kant, Mill, Rand and Rawls. Fleming advocated a return to premodern traditions, such as those in the texts of Aristotle, the Talmud, and the folk wisdom in ancient Greek literature, for a solution to ethical predicaments.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.

Hell and other people -- Citizens of the world -- Too much reality -- Growing up un-absurd -- Problems of perspective -- The myth of individualism -- Goodbye, old rights of man.

Offers an alternative to the enlightened liberalism espoused by thinkers as different as Kant, Mill, Rand and Rawls. Fleming advocated a return to premodern traditions, such as those in the texts of Aristotle, the Talmud, and the folk wisdom in ancient Greek literature, for a solution to ethical predicaments.

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