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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... theory aims to do without this distinction altogether . What motivates this curious blindness ? In part , the naturalist temper , as I have described above . And then , of course , the epistemological assumptions that go so well with ...
... theory of the good . To say that we don't " need " this to develop our theory of justice turns out to be highly misleading . We don't actually spell it out , but we have to draw on the sense of the good that we have here in order to ...
... theories of social contract of Grotius , Pufendorf , Locke , and others . Contract theory as such wasn't new in this century , of course . There is a rich background to it in the tradition . It had its roots in Stoic philosophy and ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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