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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... 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 • • 419 • 456 • 495 • 523 ...
... turn out to be inextricably intertwined themes . In this first part , I want to say something about this connection , before in Parts II - V plunging into the history and analysis of the modern identity . But another obstacle rises in ...
... turn on this : in either case our response is to an object with a certain property . But in one case the property marks the object as one meriting this reaction ; in the other the connection between the two is just a brute fact . Thus ...
... turn and hence fail to lead a full life . To understand our moral world we have to see not only what ideas and pictures underlie our sense of respect for others but also those which underpin our notions of a full life . And as we shall ...
... turn around the meaning of life and which would not have been fully understand- able in earlier epochs . Moderns can anxiously doubt whether life has meaning , or wonder what its meaning is . However philosophers may be inclined to ...
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 |