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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... modern understanding of the self developed out of earlier pictures of human identity . This book attempts to define the modern identity in describing its genesis . I focus on three major facets of this identity : first , modern ...
... modern conceptions of self and locus : by the way the common sense of our age distributes the onus of persuasion . This modern dualism can generate its own kind of naturalist , mechanistic monism , of course - though here the dualism is ...
... Modern moral culture is one of multiple sources ; it can be schematized as a space in which one can move in three directions . There are the two independent frontiers and the original theistic foundation . The fact that the directions ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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