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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... Source 21. The Expressivist Turn PART V Subtler Languages 22. Our Victorian Contemporaries 23. Visions of the Post - Romantic Age 24. Epiphanies of Modernism 25. Conclusion : The Conflicts of Modernity Notes . Index • · 355 • 368 • 393 ...
... source . The first I try to trace through Augustine to Descartes and Montaigne , and on to our own day ; the second I ... sources than its condemners allow , but that this richness is rendered invisible by x • Preface Identity and the Good.
... source of a deep uncertainty . We are as ambivalent about heroism as we are about the value of the workaday goals that it sacrifices . We struggle to hold on to a vision of the incomparably higher , while being true to the central ...
... source of conflict . The most important ones , those which are most widely adhered to in our civilization , have arisen through a historical supersession of earlier , less adequate views — analogous to the critical supersession of ...
... sources of radical criticism of existing practices and beliefs . An ethical outlook organized around a hypergood in this way is thus inherently conflictual and in tension . The highest good is not only ranked above the other recognized ...
Contents
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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 |