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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... religious culture often ask whether the demand of conventional piety are sufficient for them or whether they don't feel called to some purer , more dedicated vocation . Figures of this kind have founded most of the great religious ...
... religion continue very much alive , but also highly contested . None forms the horizon of the whole society in the modern West . This term ' horizon ' is the one that is frequently used to make this point . What Weber called ...
... religions over what one might call the shape of the supernatural — whether we speak in terms of the God of Abraham , or of Brahman , or of Nirvana , and so on . The whole issue area in which these answers make sense didn't need to arise ...
... religion . The naturalist view would relegate the issue of what framework to adopt to the former category , as an ultimately factitious question . But our discussion of identity indicates rather that it belongs to the class of the ...
... religions , a cosmic reality ; in Jewish - Christian monotheism , one transcending the cosmos . In certain early religions , like the Aztec , there was even a notion that the whole world runs down , loses substance or Being , and has to ...
Contents
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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 |