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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... possible means . Gaining insight into the world as mechanism is inseparable from seeing it as a domain of potential instrumental control . This connection between knowledge and control was already evident to Descartes , and he gave ...
... possible reason for an inward turn . There has been a strand of Christian thought , as we have recurrently seen , which has not accommodated easily to the ordered cosmos as the measure of the good . For Luther , man was to be understood ...
... possible answers to this question can be at least loosely fitted onto the tripartite " map " of moral sources which we have inherited from the nineteenth century . The original root of the demand that we seek universal justice and well ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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