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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... force of certain stories has to be understood in the light of the discussion above in section 2.3 , where I talked of our striving to make sense of our lives in narrative as somehow related to the good . One way in which people do this ...
... force of raw nature , a force which declares irrelevant all judgements made on this nature as crude or imperfect from more refined and spiritual points of view . Rosen and Zerner in their discussion of the Burial point to " the ...
... force of the idea that music is a direct picture of the will . But all this was in aid not of an escape from willing , but of a new reformation of German culture and politics . The world is to be remade ; life is to be made once more ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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