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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... affirmation of ordinary life therefore involves a polemical stance towards these traditional views and their implied elitism . This was true of the Reformation theologies , which are the main source of the drive to this affirmation in ...
... affirmation that the fulness of Christian existence was to be found within the activities of this life , in one's calling and in marriage and the family . The entire modern development of the affirmation of ordinary life was , I believe ...
... affirmation continue ? The question might arise in another form , following the discussion in section 23.6 : perhaps the original Enlightenment affirmation was indeed confident , based on a highly idealized , immediately post ...
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Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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