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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... political theory of legitimacy through contract . As against earlier contract theories , the one we find with Grotius and Locke starts from the individual . Being in a political order to which one owes allegiance presup- poses , on this ...
... political atomism which arises in the seventeenth century , most notably with the theories of social contract of ... political authority as the consent of a community.12 For a post - seventeenth - century reader , an obvious question ...
... political practice . But they have remained burdened with the onus of explanation . Atomist views always seem nearer to common sense , more immediately available . Even though they don't stand up very well in argument ( at least , so I ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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