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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... mind a few times about what should go into it . In part , this was for the familiar reason that for a long time I wasn't sure what I wanted to say . In part , it was because of the very ambitious nature of the enterprise , which is an ...
... mind what it is to feel the claim of human suffering , or what is repugnant about injustice , or the awe you feel at the fact of human life . No argument can take someone from a neutral stance towards the world , either adopted from the ...
... mind in my discussion above , where I spoke of identifying oneself as a Catholic or an anarchist , or as an Armenian or a Quebecois . Normally , however , one dimension would not be exclusive of the other . Thus it might be essential to ...
... mind to body our usual intuitions about the unity of a person are disturbed.29 From my point of view , this whole conception suffers from a fatal flaw . Personal identity is the identity of the self , and the self is understood as an ...
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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 |