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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... outlook derived from the Reformers ( partly through Bacon ) with that so influentially formulated by Descartes . We already saw the affinity between the two in the previous chapter : they shared common opponents in the defenders of the ...
... outlook , which comes to be known as the theory of moral sentiments , expounded in a set of influential writings by Francis Hutcheson . The difference between the two variants can be explained in terms of , perhaps even largely traced ...
... outlook was required before it could become conceivable that there be an independent science of this ' economic ' aspect of social existence . In terms of a categorization drawn from Marx , economics focusses on the interchange between ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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