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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... vision or understanding . The correct vision or understanding of ourselves is one which grasps the natural order , the analogue of health . One feature of this natural order is the requirement itself that reason should rule ; and so ...
... vision of the larger order , which is also the vision of the Good . And this is why the language of inside / outside can in a sense be misleading as a formulation of Plato's position . In an important sense , the moral sources we accede ...
... vision of order . It is not only that wisdom involves seeing through the falseness of the goods which ordinary men's passions relate to . This negative understanding was the flip side of a positive insight . The Stoic sage saw the ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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