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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... 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 is asymmetrical : there is a crucial difference between ...
... Radical objectivity is only intelligible and accessible through radical subjectivity . This paradox has , of course , been much commented on by Heidegger , for instance , in his critique of subjectivism , and by Merleau - Ponty . Modern ...
... radical . Taking one's stand in raw human desire was a way of calling to account all the established systems of law , politics , and particularly religion . Do they require the suppression of the universal and necessary demands of ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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