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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... significance makes a universal demand such that , for instance , I may be called upon to work for a future world in which these fulfilments will be maximized , even though I can have no direct part in it . This significance can't reside ...
... significance would be illusory ; and now it looks as though the universe cannot provide such a warrant ( at least ... significance of ordinary life . 19.3 There is another facet of the spiritual significance of naturalism which it's ...
... significance ; that in it lies the key to a certain depth , or fulness , or seriousness , or intensity of life , or to a certain wholeness . I have to use a string of alternatives here , because this significance is very differently ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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