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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... belief , from tribal custom to group identity , including religious belief . But this explanation won't resist close examination . Obviously , industri- alization , technological change , and mobility have undermined many features of ...
... belief , whose erroneous nature was only masked by a certain set of practices , then it would collapse with the passing of these and their supersession by others ; as perhaps certain particular beliefs about magical connections have ...
... belief in God . Henceforth , belief and unbelief exist in contrast and tension with each other , and both are made problematic by the fact that they exist in this field of alternatives , as I said earlier ( Chapter 18 ) . Neither can ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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