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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... seen as a quasi - possession of the agent to whom it is attributed . At first such rights were differential possessions : some people had the right to participate in certain assemblies , or to give counsel , or to collect tolls on this ...
... seen as an optional stance for human beings , however difficult it in fact has been to avoid them throughout most of previous human history . What tends to lend credence to the view that they are so optional is just the developing ...
... seen as a radical uncertainty of where they stand . They lack a frame or horizon within which things can take on a stable significance , within which some life possibilities can be seen as good or meaningful , others The Self in Moral ...
The Making of the Modern Identity Charles Taylor. possibilities can be seen as good or meaningful , others as bad or trivial . The meaning of all these possibilities is unfixed , labile , or undetermined . This is a painful and ...
... seen as a fact about human beings that they care that their image matches up to certain standards , generally socially induced . But this is not seen as something which is essential to human personhood . On the contrary , what 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 |