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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... direction it is taking as we lead it . To set the context for this , I return to my argument about the good , to sum up where I think it stands at this point . In my introductory remarks I began by declaring that my aim was to explore ...
... direction of our lives , towards or away from it , or the source of our motivations in regard to it . We find this kind of question clearly posed in the religious tradition . The Puritan wondered whether he was saved . The question was ...
... direction of his life is set , however little mastery he may have actually achieved . And this is a source of deep satisfaction and pride to him . The householder , who sees the meaning of life in the rich joys of family love , in the ...
... direction of our lives must arise for us . Here we connect up with another inescapable feature of human life . I have been arguing that in order to make minimal sense of our lives , in order to have an identity , we need an orientation ...
... direction or give it a new one , I project a future story , not just a state of the momentary future but a bent for my whole life to come . This sense of my life as having a direction towards what I am not yet is what Alasdair Maclntyre ...
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 |