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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... bring it about . One could , of course , use the language of ' inside / outside ' to formulate the opposition of the Platonic to the warrior ethic . For what the former considers crucial is the disposition of the soul , not external ...
... bring about the salvation of those whose lives were thus reordered . But that would be an absurd and blasphemous aim . 46 As Calvin writes in his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans , the duty of a Christian pastor is " by bringing ...
... bring them to the highest development , just as the earth does with all that it brings forth . . . It is not God's will that His secrets should be visible : it is His will that they should become manifest and knowable through the works ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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