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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... possible . I owe a debt of gratitude as well to the Canada Council for granting me an Isaak Killam Fellowship , which made it possible for me to take another year's leave . This proved to be crucial . My thanks go also to McGill ...
... possible life , and this not only among professional philoso- phers , but with a wider public . So much of my effort in Part I will be directed towards enlarging our range of legitimate moral descriptions , and in some cases retrieving ...
... possible for a reaction like nausea . Of course we can reason that it might be useful or convenient to alter the boundaries of what we feel nausea at ; and we might succeed , with training , in doing so . But what seems to make no sense ...
... possible articulations of it . But the second facet of the question above is not historical . It is rather : Why do we think of fundamental orientation in terms of the question , Who ? The question Who ? is asked to place someone as a ...
... possible these discriminations , including those which turn on strong evaluations . It hence couldn't be entirely without such evaluations . The notion of an identity defined by some mere de facto , not strongly valued preference is ...
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 |