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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... feel I could launch into this study without some preliminary 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 ...
... feels these demands , and they have been and are acknowledged in all human societies . Of course the scope of the demand ... feel these demands laid on them by some class of persons , and for most contemporaries this class is coterminous ...
... feel sympathy for others . The roots of respect for life and integrity do seem to go as deep as this , and to be connected perhaps with the almost universal tendency among other animals to stop short of the killing of conspecifics . But ...
... feel nausea at ; and we might succeed , with training , in doing so . But what seems to make no sense here is the supposition that we might articulate a description of the nauseating in terms of its intrinsic properties , and then argue ...
... feel the demand to be consistent in our moral reactions . And even those philosophers who propose to ignore ontological accounts nevertheless scrutinize and criticize our moral intuitions for their consistency or lack of it . But the ...
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 |