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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... Enlightenment . 33 32 The theory has deep roots in Christian theology , and Kant remained a believing Christian . But his conception is radically anthropocentric . The proximate source of this transformation of the will is not God , but ...
... Enlightenment to face the issue of moral sources . But we must at least assume that there is some answer if we are ... Enlightenment ideas . The notion of progress and the emphasis on rationally planned improvement came from the ...
... Enlightenment ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1981 ) , pp . 176-190 ; Bernard Semmel , The Methodist Revolution ( New York : Basic Books , 1973 ) , chap . 2 . 19. RADICAL ENLIGHTENMENT 1. ' Aufklärer ' , meaning ' thinker ( or ...
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Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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