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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... politics , so much concerned with issues of welfare , and at the same time powers the most influential revolutionary ideology of our century , Marxism , with its apotheosis of man the producer . This sense of the importance of the ...
... politics expressed by painters or singers , even though they may have no more special expertise in public affairs than the next person , seems to spring from the same roots . But there is also something quintessentially modern in this ...
... and the fierce competition for this kind of dignity is part of what animates democratic politics . These distinctions , which I have been calling frameworks , are thus woven in different ways into the three dimensions of our moral 25.
... political or religious convictions of the parents . And yet we can talk without paradox of an American ' tradition ' of leaving home . The young person learns the independent stance , but this stance is also something expected of him or ...
... more trivial level , some people get a sense of meaning in their lives from having Been There , i.e. , having been a witness to big , important events in the world of politics , show business , or whatever . On The Self in Moral Space 43.
Contents
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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 |