Sources of the SelfIn 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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... Christian belief . He stresses the likeness , and was one of the founders of the line of Christian thought that sees Plato as the ' Attic Moses ' . The Christian God can still make things on the model of the Ideas , because they are his ...
... Christian case , that Christ's teaching led to his crucifixion was a consequence of evil in the world , of the darkness not comprehending the light . In the restored order that God is conferring , good doesn't need to be sacrificed for ...
... Christian and secularized moral sources . On one hand , the driving force of both the British anti - slavery movement and American abolitionism was religious . It is difficult indeed to imagine these movements attaining the same ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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