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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... respect someone . Autonomy is now central to this . So the Lockean trinity of natural rights includes that to liberty . And for us respecting personality involves as a crucial feature respecting the person's moral autonomy . With the ...
... respect of those around us . Here the term ' respect ' has a slightly different meaning than in the above . I'm not talking now about respect for rights , in the sense of non - infringement , which we might call ' active ' respect , but ...
Charles Taylor. knowingly . Something inspires our respect here , and this respect empowers . Or if it fails utterly to move us , then it cannot be that we accept that conception of the good . This humanism is less far from the Kantian ...
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Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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