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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... experience which could just as well have been someone else's . In doing this , I suspend the ' intentional ' dimension of the experience , that is , what makes it the experience of something . I take note , of course , that this experience ...
... experience , then some supposition has to be invoked to take up the interpretive slack , to supply an account in the place of the one we are forgoing . For Descartes and his empiricist successors , the suppositions are ( naturally ) ...
... experience or subjectivity , didn't mean a turn to a self to be articulated , where this is understood as an alignment of nature and reason , or instinct and creative power . On the contrary , the turn inward may take us beyond the self ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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