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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... formulation for this principle of respect has come to be in terms of rights . This has become central to our legal systems - and in this form has spread around the world . But in addition , something analogous has become central to our ...
... formulation alone , but of the whole speech act . Indeed , the most powerful case is where the speaker , the formulation , and the act of delivering the message all line up together to reveal the good , as the immense and continuing ...
... formulation , but in the process it becomes something different , which is to say it moves into the orbit of other formulations . To see this relationship — and not to make the philosophy something independently efficacious , or to ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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