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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Charles Taylor. we recognize in general that the existence of certain goods is dependent on the existence of humans , so we might be forced to recognize that certain goods are only such granted the existence of humans within a certain ...
... recognize and to be moving towards rather than away from them , my direction in relation to this good has a crucial importance . Just because my orientation to it is essential to my identity , so the recognition that my life is turned ...
... recognize that pointed questions could be put in the other direction as well , directed at theistic views . My aim has been not to score points but to identify this range of questions around the moral sources which might sustain our ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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