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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... notion that the life of production and reproduction , of work and the family , is the main locus of the good life flies in the face of what were originally the dominant distinctions of our civilization . For both the warrior ethic and ...
... notion of an ontic logos was welded for centuries into the very centre of Christian theology , so that for many people in modern times the challenge to this notion has seemed indistinguishable from atheism . But naturally this synthesis ...
... notion of originality . It goes beyond a fixed set of callings to the notion that each human being has some original and unrepeatable “ measure ” . We are all called to live up to our originality . This radical individuation was ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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