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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... earlier in human history . And in a sense this is true . Certainly earlier formulations of the issue of this second axis invoke some larger reality we should connect with : in some earlier religions , a cosmic reality ; in Jewish ...
... earlier hierarchical , organic society has been undermined and disaggregated as much by the aspiration to family intimacy as by ' individu- alism ' , in the usual sense of a centring on the rights or purposes of individuals . In fact ...
... earlier conceptions of order could justify the terrible punishments of earlier times is well illustrated in the opening passages of Foucault's Surveiller et punir ( Paris : Gallimard , 1975 ) , where , as noted earlier , he relates the ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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