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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... True knowledge , true valuation is not exclusively located in the subject . In a sense , one might say that their paradigm location is in reality ; correct human knowledge and valuation comes from our connecting ourselves rightly to the ...
... True , the Savoyard curate relies on the vision of providential order too . But the definition of conscience as an inner sentiment could be taken in a much stronger sense . Not just that I have , thanks be to God , sentiments which ...
... true of the Baudelaire who speaks of the ' correspondences ' ; nor is it true of Schopenhauer himself , who sees the artist as contemplating the Ideas . But it is true of those who followed in their wake , as these vestiges of ( neo ) ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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