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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... identity . This book attempts to define the modern identity in describing its genesis . I focus on three major facets of this identity : first , modern inwardness , the sense of ourselves as beings with inner depths , and the connected ...
Charles Taylor. we in fact define our identity involve such strong evaluations , as the above examples make clear , or just that the issue of identity is invariably for us a matter itself of strongly valued good — an identity is ...
... identity ' , offering an answer to the question of who I am through a definition of where I am speaking from and to whom . 13 The full definition of someone's identity thus usually involves not only his ... identity 36 IDENTITY AND THE GOOD.
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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