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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... course of doing so , I shall also be trying to make clearer just what a background picture is , and what role it plays in our lives . Here is where an important element of retrieval comes in , because much contemporary philosophy has ...
... course not everyone agrees with Mill's principle , and its full impact on Western legislation has been very recent . But everyone in our civilization feels the force of this appeal to accord people the freedom to develop in their own ...
... course just translate into not wanting to hear about it rather than into any concrete remedial action . But the notion that we ought to reduce it to a minimum is an integral part of what respect means to us today — however distasteful ...
... course , that they are of differential importance . I want to explore here a little further just how they interweave through our moral existence . The first way is the one that I have already discussed . Frameworks provide the ...
... course , would have found this description reprehensible if not utterly incomprehensible . Underlying our modern talk of identity is the notion that questions of moral orientation cannot all be solved in simply universal terms . And ...
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 |