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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... significance of things was for them . And this situation does , of course , arise for some people . It's what we call an ' identity crisis ' , an acute form of disorientation , which people often express in terms of not knowing who they ...
... significance for me . And as has been widely discussed , these things have significance for me , and the issue of my identity is worked out , only through a language of interpretation which I have come to accept as a valid articulation ...
... significance only for the genesis of individuality , like the training wheels of nursery school , to be left behind and to play no part in the finished person . What has given currency to these views ? In a sense , this will be one of ...
... significance to itself is this requirement of self - consciousness . But what has been left out is precisely the mattering . The self is defined in neutral terms , outside of any essential framework of questions . In fact , of course ...
... significance of this if the terms prove ineradicable in first - person , non - explanatory uses ? Suppose I can convince myself that I can explain people's behaviour as an observer without using a term like ' dignity ' . What does this ...
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 |