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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... understandings of what it is to be a human agent : the senses of inwardness , freedom , individuality , and being embedded ... understanding of modernity . This issue , that is , coming to comprehend the momentous transformations of our ...
... understanding of how our pictures of the good have evolved . Selfhood and the good , or in another way selfhood and morality , turn out to be inextricably intertwined themes . In this first part , I want to say something about this ...
... understanding of respect . So much is generally agreed . Beyond this lie various richer pictures of human nature and our predicament , which offer reasons for this demand . These include , for instance , the notion of ourselves as ...
... understanding of what it is truly to respect human life and integrity . Along with the central place given to autonomy , it defines a version of this demand which is peculiar to our civilization , the modern West . 1.4 Thus far I have ...
... understanding that some special value attaches to these forms of life or to the rank or station that these people have attained within them . Indeed , one of the examples above , the honour ethic , has plainly been the background for a ...
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 |