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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... defined procedurally . Descartes offers a paradigm example of this with his model of clear and distinct thought . We end up with the assurance that this will give us substantive truth , but only after we have gone through the argument ...
... defined is so self - contained . It is not that the reference to God is wholly absent , but it seems to be subordinate to a conception of happiness which is defined purely in creaturely terms . Happi- ness is the attaining of the things ...
... defined by the order of nature in itself or by the Ideas which they embody . It is defined through the effect of the phenomena on us , in the reactions they awaken . The affinity between nature and ourselves is now mediated not by an ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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