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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... ethic of the seventeenth century , now transposed into the crucial motivational basis for an ethic of rational control . The use of this term is at first sight puzzling in a ' neo - Stoic ' morality . The ethic which prized honour ...
... ethic was in some ways analogous to , and could at times even partially fuse with , the aristocratic ethic of honour , whose origins lay in the life of warrior castes ( as indeed the ancient citizenship ideals did also ) . This found a ...
... ethic , which had its original roots in the citizen life . This was closely connected with the social stratification of the age and particularly with the distinction between aristocrats and commoners , and so the challenge turns out to ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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