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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... modern identity / Charles Taylor. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-674-82425-3 (alk. paper) (cloth) ISBN 0-674-82426-1 (paper) 1. Self (Philosophy). 2. Civilization, Modern. 3. Philosophy, Modern. 4. Ethics. I. Title ...
... modern understanding of the self developed out of earlier pictures of human identity . This book attempts to define the modern identity in describing its genesis . I focus on three major facets of this identity : first , modern ...
... modern identity ' . To give a good first approximation of what this means would be to say that it involves tracing various strands of our modern notion of what it is to be a human agent , a person , or a self . But pursuing this ...
... modern society makes it easier to live that way , but also because of the great weight of modern epistemology ( as with the naturalists evoked above ) and , behind this , of the spiritual outlook associated with this epistemology . So ...
... modern Western moral outlook . This change of form naturally goes along with one in content , with the conception of what it is to respect someone . Autonomy is now central to this . So the Lockean trinity of natural rights includes ...
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 |