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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... conception of the universe and the place we occupy in it . In fact , if we go back before the modern period and take the thought of Plato , for example , it is clear that the ontological account underlying the morality of just treatment ...
... conceive people as active cooperators in establishing and ensuring the respect which is due them . And this expresses a ... conception of what it is to respect someone . Autonomy is now central to this . So the Lockean trinity of natural ...
... also been very influential in our civilization . This is the understanding of the higher life as coming from a transformation of the will . In the original theological conception , this change Inescapable Frameworks • 21.
The Making of the Modern Identity Charles Taylor. will . In the original theological conception , this change is the work of grace , but it has also gone through a number of secularizing transpositions . And variants of both forms ...
... conception of what this immunity consists in evolving with the development of new frameworks . Thus the fact that we now place such importance on expressive power means that our contemporary notions of what it is to respect people's ...
Contents
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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 |