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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... comes to know itself and , in that , love itself . The same basic idea underlies the second trinity , of memory ... comes from above ) . This comes about in the word ( verbum ) that I formulate inwardly , and this constitutes ...
... comes to be conveyed by this too familiar preposition , a way which comes to seem as fixed and ineradicable from reality as the preposition is from our lexicon . Thought and feeling - the psychological - are now confined to minds . This ...
... come about in the manner of the Catholic tradition , by connecting it to the sacramental life of the church ; rather it comes about within this life itself , which has to be lived in a way which is both earnest and detached . Marriage ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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