The morality of everyday life : rediscovering an ancient alternative to the liberal tradition /
Thomas Fleming.
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.
- 270 p. ; 24 cm.
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.