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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... stance , but this stance is also something expected of him or her . Moreover , what an independent stance involves is defined by the culture , in a continuing conversation into which that young person is inducted ( and in which the ...
... stance which allows us to experiment and thus obtain valid scientific results . It is not only the stance which gives us rational control over ourselves and our world . In this religious tradition , it is the way we serve God in ...
... stance towards the natural order is to have access to one's inner voice . We can't think of it as an identical message , available either by external argument from design or by inner intuition . The medium is here integral to the ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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