Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern IdentityIn this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. |
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... Locke's Punctual Self 10. Exploring " l'Humaine Condition " 11. Inner Nature 12. A Digression on Historical Explanation PART III The Affirmation of Ordinary Life 13. " God Loveth Adverbs " 14. Rationalized Christianity 15. Moral ...
... Locke , in order to close off this possibility in the case of his three basic rights , had to introduce the notion of ' inalienability ' . Nothing like this was necessary on the earlier natural law formulation , because that language by ...
... Locke to Condillac , presented it as an instrument potentially inventable by individ- uals . A private language was a real possibility on these views . 16 This idea continues to bewitch us in this age . We have only to think of the ...
... Locke , where because of the unusual and perplexing relation of mind to body our usual intuitions about the unity of a person are disturbed.29 From my point of view , this whole conception suffers from a fatal flaw . Personal identity ...
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Contents
3 | |
41 | |
53 | |
Moral Sources PART II | 105 |
Inwardness | 109 |
Moral Topography | 111 |
Platos SelfMastery | 115 |
In Interiore Homine | 127 |
The Culture of Modernity | 285 |
Fractured Horizons | 305 |
Nature as Source | 355 |
The Expressivist Turn | 368 |
Our Victorian Contemporaries | 405 |
Visions of the PostRomantic | 419 |
Epiphanies of Modernism | 456 |
The Conflicts of Modernity | 495 |
Descartess Disengaged Reason | 143 |
Lockes Punctual Self | 159 |
Exploring lHumaine Condition | 177 |
Inner Nature | 185 |
A Digression on Historical Explanation | 199 |
PART III | 209 |
God Loveth Adverbs | 211 |
Rationalized Christianity | 234 |
Moral Sentiments | 248 |
The Providential Order | 269 |
3 | 539 |
25 | 541 |
53 | 551 |
91 | 568 |
III | 573 |
127 | 582 |
143 | 585 |
185 | 596 |
211 | 599 |