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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... doctrine of innate ideas . Deep within us is an implicit understanding , which we have to think hard to bring to ... doctrine to a novel purpose . For Plato in the Meno , the doctrine of reminiscence , besides answering the difficult ...
... doctrine of inwardness to Augus- tine's whole conception of the relation of man to God . We can best see this if we relate this doctrine to another major difference with Plato . I mentioned above that Augustine too sees the soul as ...
... doctrine of the divine right of kings provided an alternative to contract theory in the seventeenth century . Divine right was a quintessentially modern doctrine , unlike previous mediaeval doctrines of the divine constitution of ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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