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The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition
The Morality of Everyday Life Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition Author:Thomas Fleming In The Morality of Everyday Life, Thomas Fleming offers an alternative to the enlightened liberalism espoused by thinkers as different as Kant, Mill, Rand, and Rawls. Philosophers in the liberal tradition, although they disagree on many important questions, agree that moral and political problems should be looked at from an objective point of vi... more »ew and a decision made from a distant perspective that is both rational and universally applied to all comparable cases. Fleming instead places importance on the particular, the local, and moral complexity. "This book is a pleasure to read, filled with telling and memorable examples-both erudite and popular-and continually stimulating in its account. Its rhetoric blends something of a Nietzschean subversion with the humane balance of Hume. It is the most devastating critique of liberalism since MacIntyre."-Donald W. Livingston« less