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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... moral experience . This is the point of Blackburn's ' quasi- realism ' , which he defines as " the enterprise of showing how much of the apparently ' realist ' appearance of ordinary moral thought is explicable and justifiable on an ...
... moral philosophy . Having excluded qualitative distinctions for epistemological and moral reasons so effectively , indeed , that it has almost suppressed all awareness of their place in our lives , it proposes a view of moral thought ...
... moral motives buttress each other while hiding their joint operation , will inspire attack from many sides . Not all will be concerned to articulate the underlying notions of the good . There is an influential line of attack today ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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