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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... morality , and he allows that they are not . He even admits that their principal empirical argument , that of the harmony of interests , is valid and needs to be made known . The big issue is elsewhere . It is a question of moral sources ...
... moral sources which was truly available in a stronger sense . Pure Spinozism was not on . Shaftesbury becomes immensely influential for rather similar reasons : his sense of the unity of nature , his doctrine of plastic powers , his ...
... moral motivation is liable to have been more in evidence earlier , and in France , than later , and in the English - speaking cultures . This might help explain why the virtually total suppression of any acknowledgement of the dimension ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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