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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... practices . If we articulate any rationale at all , it must involve an interpretation of current practice ; it may also be projecting something new and untried . The ways in which ideas can interweave with their practices are various ...
... practices - religious , political , economic , familial , intellectual , artistic - converged and reinforced each other to pro- duce it : the practices , for instance , of religious prayer and ritual , of spiritual discipline as a ...
... practices we call capitalism allowed the European powers to establish a world hegemony for a time . This has obviously had tremendous importance for the spread of these practices . This kind of success virtually enforces their ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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