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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... ordinary life . This last is a term of art , meant roughly to designate the life of production and the family . According to traditional , Aristotelian ethics , this has merely infrastruc- tural importance . ' Life ' was important as ...
... ordinary life , although not uncontested and frequently appearing in secularized form , has become one of the most powerful ideas in modern civilization . It underlies our contemporary " bour- geois " politics , so much concerned with ...
... ordinary life . In general , one might try to single out three axes of what can be called , in the most general sense , moral thinking . As well as the two just mentioned— our sense of respect for and obligations to others , and our ...
... ordinary ends , goods , desirabilia . They are not just more desirable , in the same sense though to a greater degree , than some of these ordinary goods are . Because of their special status they command our awe , respect , or ...
... ordinary life in this sense is part of the lower range , part of what contrasts with the incomparably higher . The affirmation of ordinary life therefore involves a polemical stance towards these traditional views and their implied ...
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 |