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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... stance they take , even if it is one of dismissal , towards past thought and culture . This is no gratuitous obsession . We cannot understand ourselves without coming to grips with this history . But I find myself dissatisfied with the ...
... much froth , nonsense from a bygone age . This stance may go along with a sociobiological explanation for our having such reactions , which can be thought to have obvious evolutionary utility and indeed Inescapable Frameworks · 5.
... stance and try to describe the facts as they are independent of these reactions , as we have done in natural science since the seventeenth century . There is such a thing as moral objectivity , of course . Growth in moral insight often ...
... stances people take . For some it may mean holding a definite traditionally defined view with the self - conscious sense of standing against a major part of one's compatriots . Others may hold the view but with a pluralist sense that it ...
... stances in our society : the contrast between the moral majority of born - again evangelicals in the contemporary American West and South , on one hand , and their middle - class urban compatriots on the East Coast , on the other . In a ...
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 |