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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... distinction illegitimate ? A metaphysical invention ? It seems to turn on this : in either case our response is to an object with a certain property . But in one case the property marks the object as one meriting this reaction ; in the ...
... distinctions . To think , feel , judge within such a framework is to function with the sense that some action , or mode of life , or mode of feeling is incomparably higher than the others which are more readily available to us . I am ...
... distinctions have in common by the term ' incomparable ' . In each of these cases , the sense is that there are ends or goods which are worthy or desirable in a way that cannot be measured on the same scale as our ordinary ends , goods ...
... distinction . It can be only this ; or it can be spelled out in a highly explicit way , in a philosophically formulated ontology or anthropology . In the case of some frameworks it may be optional whether one formulates them or not ...
... distinctions which structure people's lives today will be even more radically incomplete if I do not take account of the fact with which I started this section : that there is a widespread temper , which I called ' naturalist ' , which ...
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 |