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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... perhaps even seem to offer a way of escape for those who feel oppressed by disenchantment . But things must have been very different as this identity was emerging . Perhaps this can help account for that puzzling phenomenon , the Euro ...
... perhaps the original Enlightenment affirmation was indeed confident , based on a highly idealized , immediately post - providential vision of nature . But can this affirmation be sustained in face of our contemporary post ...
... Perhaps . Certainly most of the outlooks which promise us that we will be spared these choices are based on selective blindness . This is perhaps the major point elaborated in this book . But I didn't undertake it in this downbeat a ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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