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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... connection with the observation that people have a ' self - image ' which matters to them ; that they strive to appear in a good light in the eyes of those they come in contact with as well as in their own . Here there is indeed a sense ...
... connection in the close link discussed in section 2.1 between identity and moral orientation . We have a sense of who we are through our sense of where we stand to the good . But this will also mean , as we shall see in detail later ...
... connection between priesthood and celibacy , and partly because of the role of religious in an economy of mutual mediation : monks and nuns prayed for everyone , just as the laity worked , fought , and governed for the whole . Both ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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