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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... person in the grip of an appalling identity crisis . Such a person wouldn't know where he stood on issues of fundamental importance , would have no orientation in these issues whatever , wouldn't be able to answer for himself on them ...
... person and , similarly , to consider what " I " ( as we normally put it ) shall be several decades in the future as still another person . This whole position draws on the Lockean ( further developed in the Humean ) understanding of ...
... person standpoint , where I make my experience my object . Radical reflexivity brings to the fore a kind of presence to oneself which is inseparable from one's being the agent of experience , something to which access by its very nature ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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