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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... century saw the contract theories of the great Jesuit writers like Suarez . Nevertheless , there was something importantly new in the seventeenth- century theories . Previously the issue of consent had been put in terms of a people ...
... century . To those influenced by this notion of personal commitment , it seemed obvious that the only thing which could create authority was the consent of the individual . His will and his purposes are his own . Only he can bind them ...
... century when these reformers and others stepped outside the boundaries of belief . But it would be a mistake to think of this as part of a smooth , continuing , unidirectional move towards ' secularization'.13 The initial impulse ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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