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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... described as the ' moral ' . In addition to our notions and reactions on such issues as justice and the respect of other people's life , well - being , and dignity , I want also to look at our sense of what underlies our own dignity ...
... described by Nietzsche's fool undoubtedly corresponds to something very widely felt in our culture . This is what I tried to describe with the phrase above , that frameworks today are problematic . This vague term points towards a ...
... described as " narcissistic personality disorders " , which take the form of a radical uncertainty about oneself and about what is of value to one , patients show signs of spatial disorientation as well at moments of acute crisis . The ...
... described without reference to its surroundings . The first two features correspond to a central feature of the great seventeenth - century revolution in natural science , that we should cease trying to explain the world around us in ...
... described without reference to those who surround it . This has become an important point to make , because not only the philosophico - scientific tradition but also a powerful modern aspiration to freedom and individuality have ...
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 |