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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... disengage and no longer live in our experience , then some supposition has to be invoked to take up the interpretive ... disengaged control as a modified figure of Augustinian inwardness . But the paradox is merely superficial . Radical ...
... disengaged reason . For the Deism which comes from Shaftesbury ( and also from Leibniz , as we shall see in Chapter 16 ) , though disengaged reason is not repudiated , we participate in God's plan through a re - engagement : we have to ...
... disengaged reason as well as of the creative imagination , in the characteris- tically modern understandings of freedom and dignity and rights , in the ideals of self - fulfilment and expression , and in the demands of universal ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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