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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... give greater credence to this second perception , not because we have discovered that these manoeu- vres work as ... gives us an impossible task . Classical epistemology was always threatening to drive into this cul - de - sac and ...
... give primacy to the agent's own desires or his will , while still wanting to give value to practical reason , you have to redefine this in procedural terms . If the right thing to do still has to be understood as what is rationally ...
... gives sense and hope to a human condition which is otherwise the source of irremediable despair and potentially endless self - destruction . God has to exist for humans to give some order to their life . That is why Locke was induced to ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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