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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... Locke but the whole tradition of the " theory of ideas " : these are sometimes treated as inert objects in the mind , and sometimes as propositional entities . The idea is sometimes seen as a quasi - object that can be moved around and ...
... Locke is acknowledging in his own way here what I argued in Part I ( section 2.2 ) : the close connection between our notion of the self and our moral self - understanding . Locke's person is the moral agent who takes responsibility for ...
... Locke , the temptation is great to see Locke's Christianity as largely a residual attachment to the past or perhaps even as a protective colouration in an age when open unbelief invited reprisal . Though Locke was not without his ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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