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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... offering a reason , at the same time helps define my identity . Nor do our qualitative distinctions offer reasons in another sense which is often evoked in the literature of moral philosophy . In this sense , we give a reason for a ...
... offer reasons in quite different senses . Our qualitative distinctions , as definitions of the good , rather offer reasons in this sense , that articulating them is articulating what underlies our ethical choices , leanings , intuitions ...
... offer two incompatible views of the relation of beauty to morality . On one view , play and the beauty it creates is an aid to the moral will . This will defines the content of human perfection , and beauty is an auxiliary , even though ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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