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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... nature and status of human beings . From this second side , a moral reaction is an assent to , an affirmation of , a given ontology of the human . An important strand of modern naturalist consciousness has tried to hive this second side ...
... natural to assume that we would have to establish these ontological predicates in ways analogous to our supporting ... nature of the response as well as spelling out what all this presupposes about ourselves and our situation in the ...
... nature of 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 ...
... natural law theory in the seventeenth century partly consisted in using this language of rights to express the universal moral norms ... natural law formulation , because that language by its very nature excludes Inescapable Frameworks II.
... nature excludes the power of waiver . To talk of universal , natural , or human rights is to connect respect for human life and integrity with the notion of autonomy . It is to conceive people as active cooperators in establishing and ...
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 |