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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... whole is to part , as englobing to englobed . But it is not more important just for this reason . The real point is that it is only on the level of the whole order that one can see that everything is ordered for the good . The vision of ...
... whole order in which one is set . The good person loves the whole order of things . Here we have a rival to Lockean Deism , which embraces autonomous reason and sidelines grace but which has an utterly different view of moral sources ...
... whole order of nature . Self - love thus pushed to social , to divine , Gives thee to make they neighbour's blessing thine . Is this too little for thy boundless heart ? Extend it , let thy enemies have part : Grasp the whole worlds of ...
Contents
Inescapable Frameworks | 3 |
The Self in Moral Space | 41 |
Ethics of Inarticulacy | 53 |
Copyright | |
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