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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... actions . It explains in a fuller and richer way the meaning of this action for us , just what its goodness or badness , being obligatory or forbidden , consists in . It is possible to know , for instance , as a child sometimes does ...
... action . Or where it sees itself in a strictly " meta - ethical " role , it should concern itself with the language in which we determine extra - philosophically the principles of our action . Its starting point should be our intuitions ...
... action in much of contemporary moral theory . This focus can be represented as being a sign of moral earnestness , of benevolent determination . Those who are concerned about what is valuable , what one should love or admire , are ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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