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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... involves our sharing to some degree God's love ( agape ) for the world , and this transforms how we see things and ... involves our changing , a change which is qualified as ' growth ' , or ' sanctification ' , or ' higher consciousness ...
... involves being " all there " , being more attentively ' in ' our experience . A more important context is the one in which we try to get clearer on what we feel about some person or event . This involves reflexivity and self- awareness ...
... involves the first - person standpoint . It involves disengaging from my own spontaneous beliefs and syntheses , in order to submit them to scrutiny . This is something which in the nature of things each person must do for himself . We ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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