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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... discussion of these links . This seemed all the more necessary in that the moral philosophies dominant today tend to obscure these connec- tions . In order to see them , we have to appreciate the place of the good , in more than one ...
... discussions with colleagues at All Souls College , in Oxford generally , and at McGill , Berkeley , Frankfurt , and Jerusalem , includ- ing James Tully , Hubert Dreyfus , Alexander Nehamas , Jane Rubin , Jurgen Habermas , Axel Honneth ...
... discussion above, where some naturalists propose to treat all moral ontologies as irrelevant stories, without validity, while they themselves go on arguing like the rest of us about what objects are fit and what reactions appropriate ...
... discussion above , where some naturalists propose to treat all moral ontologies as irrelevant stories , without validity , while they themselves go on arguing like the rest of us about what objects are fit and what reactions appropriate ...
... discussing are also relevant . ' Morality ' , of course , can be and often is defined purely in terms of respect for others . The category of the moral is thought to encompass just our obligations to other people . But if we adopt this ...
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 |