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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... lives . But whatever favoured description , be it incorporating something in one's life or connecting to something greater outside , I use my images of ' contact ' with the good , or ' how we are placed ' in relation to the good , as ...
... live their lives . Indeed , we frequently offer them to the people concerned as an improvement on their own self - understandings . What is preposterous is the suggestion that we ought to disregard altogether the terms that can figure ...
... lives through a new story . The tremendous force of certain stories has to be understood in the light of the discussion above in section 2.3 , where I talked of our striving to make sense of our lives in narrative as somehow related to ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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