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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... relation of such things as pornography , or various kinds of permissive sexual behaviour , or portrayals of violence , to legitimate development . Does the prohibition of the former endanger the latter ? No one doubts that if it does ...
The Making of the Modern Identity Charles Taylor. 15 rather , a complex relation in which some of the same basic notions reappear in a new way . This is particularly the case for what I called above the affirmation of ordinary life . In ...
... relation is between these styles of pathology and the non - pathological predicaments which parallel them is very unclear . In order even to have a serious try at understanding this , we would have to gain a better grasp of the ...
... relation to which they literally live and die . This will be evident enough in the judgement calls they make on their own and others ' action . But it may be left entirely to us , observers , historians , philosophers , anthropol ...
... relation to the imperious demands of the Superego as well as in the face of the urgings of the Id . The ideally free Ego would be a lucid calculator of pay - offs . The Ego or Self also enters psychology and sociology in another way ...
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 |