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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... thought.14 Taking the heroic stance doesn't allow one to leap out of the human condition , and it remains true that one can elaborate one's new language only through conversation in a broad sense , that is , through some kind of ...
... thought with any partner in this new , indirect way , through a reading of the disagreement . And even here , not all the confronting can be through dissent . I stress the continuity between the later , higher , more independent stance ...
... thought . The translation I have just made of ' thought ' for ' reason ' is not entirely innocent . I will argue below that the transformation I want to describe between ancient and modern can be reflected in this shift of vocabulary ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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