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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... higher than the merely private existence , devoted to the arts of peace and economic well - being . The higher life is marked out by the aura of fame and glory which attaches to it , or at least to signal cases , those who succeed in it ...
... higher consciousness ' , and even involves our repudiating earlier goods , is what makes it so problematic . It is problematic right off because controver- sial , critical of where ' ordinary ' , or ' unregenerate ' , or ' primitive ...
... higher than something which just lives , and something which also has intelligence is higher still . The grounds for this are that the higher in each case includes the lower as well as itself . But later on , another ground for ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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