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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... ourselves about morality supposes that our moral reactions have these two sides : that they are not only ' gut ' feelings but also implicit acknowledgements of claims concerning their objects . The various ontological accounts try to ...
... ourselves as disengaged subjects , breaking free from a comfortable but illusory sense of immersion in nature , and objectifying the world around us ; or the Kantian picture of ourselves as pure rational agents ; or the Romantic picture ...
... ourselves as commanding ( or failing to command ) the respect of those around us . Here the term ' respect ' has a slightly different meaning than in the above . I'm not talking now about respect for rights , in the sense of non ...
... ourselves articulating inter alia what I have been calling here ' frameworks ' . In a sense , this might be thought to offer a sufficient answer to the naturalist attempt to sideline frameworks . We might just reply to whoever propounds ...
... ourselves from the issue of spatial orientation or fail to stumble on it — as with the right angle for bowler hats or repudiate it , as the atheists imagine we can for religion . The naturalist view would relegate the issue of what ...
Contents
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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 |