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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... fact react to that way are not really fit objects for it . There seems to be no other criterion for a concept of the nauseating than our in fact reacting with nausea to the things which bear the concept . As against the first kind of ...
... fact , Locke thinks not only that obeying God is the ( instrumentally ) rational thing to do but even that ( theoretical ) reason can discern the content of God's will . Although we in fact learn of God's law through revelation , we ...
... fact that the directions are multiple contributes to our sense of uncertainty . This is part of the reason why almost everyone is tentative today , why virtually no one can have the rooted confidence in their outlook that we see , for ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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