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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... language we have come to accept articulates the issues of the good for us . But we cannot have fully articulated what we are taking as given , what we are simply counting with , in using this language . We can , of course , try to ...
... language only exists and is maintained within a language community . And this indicates another crucial feature of a self . One is a self only among other selves . A self can never be described without reference to those who surround it ...
... language , that we in some fashion confront it or relate it to the language of others . This is not just a recommended policy of the kind that suggests if you check your beliefs against others ' you'll avoid some falsehoods . In ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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