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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... crucial connections I want to draw here are incomprehensible in its terms . This moral philosophy has tended to focus on what it is right to do rather than on what it is good to be , on defining the content of obligation rather than the ...
... crucial it is . I spoke in the previous paragraph about our ' moral and spiritual ' intuitions . In fact , I want to consider a gamut of views a bit broader than what is normally described as the ' moral ' . In addition to our notions ...
... crucial description to those left outside : they are thought to lack souls , or to be not fully rational , or perhaps to be destined by God for some lower station , or something of the sort . So our moral reactions in this domain have ...
... crucial feature respecting the person's moral autonomy . With the development of the post - Romantic notion of individual difference , this expands to the demand that we give people the freedom to develop their personality in their own ...
... crucial issue was how it was led , whether worshipfully and in the fear of God or not . But the life of the God - fearing was lived out in marriage and their calling . The previous ' higher ' forms of life were dethroned , as it were ...
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 |