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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... articulate and write a history of the modern identity . With this term , I want to designate the ensemble of ( largely unarticulated ) understandings of what it is to be a human agent : the senses of inwardness , freedom , individuality ...
... articulation can be very difficult and controversial. I don't just mean this in the obvious sense that our ... articulating any particular person's background can be subject to controversy. The agent himself or herself is not necessarily ...
... articulate the intuition . It tells us , for instance , that human beings are creatures of God and made in his image , or that ... articulation to them to be so much froth , nonsense from a bygone age . This stance may go along with a ...
... articulations of our ' gut ' reactions of respect . In this they treat these reactions as different from other ' gut ... articulate , as we do in the moral case . Is this distinction illegitimate ? A metaphysical invention ? It seems to ...
... articulate these claims . The temptations to deny this , which arise from modern epistemology , are strengthened by the widespread acceptance of a deeply wrong model of practical reasoning , one based on an illegitimate extrapo- lation ...
Contents
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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 |