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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... involves , which gives a salient place to freedom and self - control , places a high priority on avoiding suffering , and sees productive activity and family life as central to our well - being . But this cluster of moral intuitions ...
... involves articulation . We find the sense of life through articulating it . And moderns have become acutely aware of how much sense being there for us depends on our own powers of expression . Discovering here depends on , is interwoven ...
... involves a polemical stance towards these traditional views and their implied elitism . This was true of the Reformation theologies , which are the main source of the drive to this affirmation in modern times . It is this polemical ...
... involves distinctions of this kind . The dignity of the warrior , the citizen , the householder , and so on repose on the background understanding that some special value attaches to these forms of life or to the rank or station that ...
... qualitative distinctions , emerges from the above discussion . It is not just that the commitments and identifications by which we in fact define our identity involve such strong evaluations The Self in Moral Space · 29.
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 |