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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... seems to impose itself ; it seems to common sense the only conceivable one . Who among us can understand our thought being anywhere else but inside , ' in the mind ' ? Something in the nature of our experience of ourselves seems to make ...
... seems to designate something like the life force in us , what flees from the body at death , rather than the site of thinking and feeling . If one asks ' where ' such things go on in Homer's account of his heroes , no single answer can ...
... seems to be subordinate to a conception of happiness which is defined purely in creaturely terms . Happi- ness is the attaining of the things we by nature desire , or pleasure and the absence of pain . The rewards of the next life seem ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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