Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern IdentityIn 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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... belief today that the artist sees farther than the rest of us , attested by our willingness to take seriously the opinions about politics expressed by painters or singers , even though they may have no more special expertise in public ...
... belief that they are fit objects of respect , that their life and integrity is sacred or enjoys immunity , and is not to be attacked . As a consequence , we can see our conception of what this immunity consists in evolving with the ...
... beliefs and attitudes making sense . But the ad hominem argument doesn't seem to go deep enough . We might think that although almost all the protagonists of naturalist reduction can themselves be caught making the kind of distinctions ...
... beliefs against others ' you'll avoid some falsehoods . In speaking of a ' transcendental ' condition here , I am pointing to the way in which the very confidence that we know what we mean , and hence our having our own original ...
... beliefs . This is not wrong , but it is dangerously misleading unless we first clarify what it is to offer reasons for moral views . But this whole complex of issues has been almost irremediably muddled and confused by the widespread ...
Contents
3 | |
41 | |
53 | |
Moral Sources PART II | 105 |
Inwardness | 109 |
Moral Topography | 111 |
Platos SelfMastery | 115 |
In Interiore Homine | 127 |
The Culture of Modernity | 285 |
Fractured Horizons | 305 |
Nature as Source | 355 |
The Expressivist Turn | 368 |
Our Victorian Contemporaries | 405 |
Visions of the PostRomantic | 419 |
Epiphanies of Modernism | 456 |
The Conflicts of Modernity | 495 |
Descartess Disengaged Reason | 143 |
Lockes Punctual Self | 159 |
Exploring lHumaine Condition | 177 |
Inner Nature | 185 |
A Digression on Historical Explanation | 199 |
PART III | 209 |
God Loveth Adverbs | 211 |
Rationalized Christianity | 234 |
Moral Sentiments | 248 |
The Providential Order | 269 |
3 | 539 |
25 | 541 |
53 | 551 |
91 | 568 |
III | 573 |
127 | 582 |
143 | 585 |
185 | 596 |
211 | 599 |