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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... moved by what is good in it rather than that it is valuable because of our reaction . We are moved by it seeing its point as something infinitely valuable . We experience our love for it as a well - founded love . Nothing that couldn't move ...
... move from slavery to the passions to rational self - possession was accounted for entirely in terms of the acquisition of insight into the order of things . The passions are construed as wrong opinions . To be moved by fear and lust is ...
... move towards ' secularization'.13 The initial impulse underlying reform was a deeply religious one , and something ... moved from a horizon in which belief in God in some form was virtually unchallengeable to our present predicament in ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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