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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... religion of external law , in the name of one which saw humans as intrinsically attuned to God . Humans approach God in fear , as an inscrutable lawgiver whose judgements are utterly beyond human comprehension and may already , indeed ...
... religion , becomes unnecessary , because these " truths " were held available to reason alone . True religion was ultimately natural religion . I hope the preceding discussion will have made clearer the appeal of this Deism . One facet ...
... religion and morality , as I argued in Part I ( sections 3.2-3 ) . From all these examples , in my view , a general truth emerges , which is that the highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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