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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... seem very much the consequence of upbringing and education . There seems to be a natural , inborn compunction to inflict death or injury on another , an inclination to come to the help of the injured or endangered . Culture and ...
... seem to be even 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 ...
... seem much of an innovation . The change seems to be one of form . The earlier way of putting it was that there was a natural law against taking innocent life . Both formulations seem to prohibit the same things . But the difference lies ...
... seems to be unique among higher civilizations . Certainly we are much more sensitive on this score than our ancestors of a few centuries ago — as we can readily see if we consider the ( to us ) barbarous punishments they inflicted ...
... seems to have been dominant among the ruling strata of archaic Greece , whose deeds were celebrated by Homer , this third axis seems to have been paramount , and seems even to have incorporated the second axis without remainder . The ...
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 |