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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... true to the central modern insights about the value of ordinary life . We sympathize with both the hero and the anti - hero ; and we dream of a world in which one could be in the same act both . This is the confusion in which naturalism ...
... true to , can fail to uphold , can surrender when one ought to . More fundamentally , we can see that it only plays the role of orienting us , of providing the frame within which things have meaning for us , by virtue of the qualitative ...
... true of objects of scientific study which don't hold of the self . To see the conceptual obstacles here , it would help to enumerate four of these . 1. The object of study is to be taken " absolutely " , that is , not in its meaning for ...
... true of such heroes that they define themselves not just genetically but as they are today , in conversation with others . They are still in a web , but the one they define themselves by is no longer the given historical community . It ...
... true light . We may sharply shift the balance in our definition of identity , dethrone the given , historic community as a pole of identity , and relate only to the community defined by adherence to the good ( of the saved , or the true ...
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 |