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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... societies . Most people in our society also see these restrictions as justified by a perception of the good . They have some notion of the sanctity or dignity of human life , bodily integrity , and the aspiration to truth which these ...
... societies in which people found themselves , because all these would be split between regenerate and damned . So the godly must be ready to break with family , with local community , with political society , in order to cleave to the ...
... society , one in which , say , a utilitarian value outlook is entrenched in the institutions of a commercial , capitalist , and finally a bureaucratic mode of existence , tends to empty life of its richness , depth , or meaning . The ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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