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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... feel on the outside , untouched . I know it's great , in a way , but I can't feel moved by it . I feel unworthy of it somehow ' . Or alternatively , someone might see in the same everyday life which so enriches the householder only a ...
... feel.11 This is an important point for my purposes , and so I want to pause to examine it a bit more closely . What are the requirements of ' making sense ' of our lives ? These requirements are not yet met if we have some theoretical ...
... feel when we are in a towering rage seems incommensurable with what we feel when we have calmed down ; the people and events are quite transformed in aspect . And a similar change can occur when we fall in or out of love . The landscape ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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