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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... speak for him / herself . Of course , I can ask the question , Who ? -pointing to someone lying over there in an irreversible coma . But this is obviously a derivative case : beings of whom one can ask this question are normally either ...
... speak for you , either by articulating what underlies your existing moral intuitions or perhaps by my description moving you to the point of making it your own . And that is also why it cannot be assimilated to giving a basic reason ...
... speak of artists as " the antennae of the race " 63 But whatever the metaphor , something like this understanding of the epiphanic is at work in Pound's mature work , in the Cantos . The concatenation of images draws towards itself ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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