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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... later decisive break with it . It seems to prepare the way for a stage where the ends of human life will no longer be defined in relation to a cosmic order at all , but must be discovered ( or chosen ) within . This although Pico is ...
... later sliding into benevolence or altruism , was wholly absent from the pre - Christian writers , as was the affirmation of ordinary life . And the dimension of post - Augustinian inwardness in all its ramifications of self- control and ...
... later ones were bound to be better ; only to show how understanding our society requires that we take a cut through time — as one takes a cut through rock to find that some strata are older than others . Views coexist with those which ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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