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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... recognize as moral concern the respect for the life , integrity , and well - being , even flourishing , of others . These are the ones we infringe when we kill or maim others , steal their property , strike fear into them and rob them ...
... recognize that their moral reactions show them to be committed to some adequate basis , are perplexed and uncertain when it comes to saying what this basis is . In our example above , many people , when faced with both the theistic and ...
... recognize as higher civilizations , this always includes the whole human species . What is peculiar to the modern West among such higher civilizations is that its favoured formulation for this principle of respect has come to be in ...
... recognize a definitive formulation with ultimate confidence . There is alway something tentative in their adhesion , and they may see themselves , as , in a sense , seeking . They are on a ' quest ' , in Alasdair Maclntyre's apt phrase ...
... recognize as integral , that is , undamaged human personhood . Perhaps the best way to see this is to focus on the issue that we usually describe today as the question of identity . We speak of it in these terms because the question is ...
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 |