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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... spiritual status of the everyday . For ordinary life to encompass this spiritual purpose , it had of course to be led in the light of God's ends , ultimately to the glory of God . This meant , of course , that one fulfil God's ...
... spiritual source of good . On the contrary , it is nothing but wild , blind , uncontrolled striving , never satisfied , incapable of satisfaction , driving us on , against all principles , law , morality , all standards of dignity , to ...
... spiritual reality . And Shelley says of poetry that " it creates anew the universe , after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration " .1 The epiphany which will free us from the ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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