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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... spiritual nature and predicament which lies behind some of the moral and spiritual intuitions of our contemporaries . In the 3 Inescapable Frameworks.
... spiritual ' intuitions . In fact , I want to consider a gamut of views a bit broader than what is normally described as the ' moral ' . In addition to our notions and reactions on such issues as justice and the respect of other people's ...
... spiritual intuitions . I could now rephrase this and say that my target is the moral ontology which articulates these intuitions . What is the picture of our spiritual nature and predicament which makes sense of our responses ? ' Making ...
... spiritual basis of their own moral judgements deviates from what is officially admitted . It will be my claim that there is a great deal of motivated suppression of moral ontology among our contemporaries , in part because the pluralist ...
... spiritual lives . Nietzsche used the term in his celebrated " God is dead " passage : " How could we drink up the sea ? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the whole horizon ? " 10 Perhaps this way of putting it appeals above all to 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 |