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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... human rights is to connect respect for human life and integrity with the notion of autonomy . It is to conceive people as active cooperators in establishing and ensuring the respect which is due them . And this expresses a central ...
... human beings as playing a role in a larger cosmic order or divine history . This was part of the negative thrust of the utilitarian Enlightenment , protesting against the needless , senseless suffering inflicted on humans in the name of ...
... human life , along with its corollary about the importance of suffering , colours our whole understanding of what it is truly to respect human life and integrity . Along with the central place given to autonomy , it defines a version of ...
... human beings , however difficult it in fact has been to avoid them throughout most of previous human history . What tends to lend credence to the view that they are so optional is just the developing ' disenchantment ' of modern culture ...
... human agency , that stepping outside these limits would be tantamount to stepping outside what we would recognize as integral , that is , undamaged human personhood . Perhaps the best way to see this is to focus on the issue that we ...
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 |