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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... turn to oneself is now also and inescapably a turn to oneself in the first - person perspective— a turn to the self as a self . That is what I mean by radical reflexivity . Because we are so deeply embedded in it , we cannot but reach ...
... turn of Augustine to the new stance of disengagement which Descartes inaugurates and Locke intensifies . To follow ... turn was tremendously influential in the West ; at first in inaugurating a family of forms of Christian spirituality ...
... turn of the century , it is not true of the great Romantics . 15 But in the very pre - established harmony between ... turn inward , to experience or subjectivity , didn't mean a turn to a self to be articulated , where this is ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
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