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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... reality cannot be understood in the terms appropriate for this physics . This is the complement to the anti - Aristotelian purge of natural science in the seventeenth century . Just as physical science is no longer anthropocentric , so ...
... reality , like the Ideas , was abandoned . A representation of reality now has to be constructed . As the notion of ' idea ' migrates from its ontic sense to apply henceforth to intra - psychic contents , to things " in the mind " , so ...
... reality shine through the veil . Leonardo is looking for " reasons " in nature : " Nature is full of an infinity of reasons which have never been in experience " . Later in the century , the claim was made that the activity of forming ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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