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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... tradition of " leaving home " . In early Connecticut , for instance , all young persons had to go through their own , individual conversion , had to establish their own relation to God , to be allowed full membership in the church . And ...
... tradition . This freeing of nature from the iconographic tradition also carries consequences for the place of the subject . The artist who sets himself to imitate nature sees himself as standing over against the object . There is a new ...
... tradition , of course , provided an influential alternative : the Gospels treat the doings of very humble people along with those of the great with the same degree of seriousness . Indeed , events of the greatest importance for human ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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