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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... expression . As is well known , the partisans of these different views are in sharp conflict with each other . Here again , a generalized moral consensus breaks into controversy at the level of philosophical explication . I am not at ...
... expression . Discovering here depends on , is interwoven with , inventing . Finding a sense to life depends on framing meaningful expressions which are adequate . There is thus something particularly appropriate to our condition in the ...
... expression , that discovering a framework is interwoven with inventing . But this rapid sketch of some of the most important distinctions which structure people's lives today will be even more radically incomplete if I do not take ...
... expression in each person's discovery of his or her moral horizon . For someone in Luther's age , the issue of the basic moral frame orienting one's action could only be put in universal terms . Nothing else made sense . This is linked ...
... expressions commonly used , images frequently evoked . Or : Is my life amounting to something ? Does it have weight and substance , or is it just running away into nothing , into something insubstantial ? Another way the question can ...
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 |