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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... seen , at least in the early , more revolutionary days , as an association which would not be congruent with the existing groups and societies in which people found themselves , because all these would be split between regenerate and ...
... seen to " perfect nature , not to destroy it " , as Aquinas put it.34 The striving after natural perfection is not an obstacle to sanctification , and the great ancient moralists are seen in a positive light ( as with Erasmus ) . Where ...
... seen as a crucial part of what makes life worthy and significant . Whereas previously these dispositions were taken as banal , except perhaps that their absence in a marked degree might cause concern or condemnation ( just as today some ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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