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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... meaning and frameworks . People of this bent would like to declare this issue of meaning a pseudo - question and brand the various frameworks within which it finds an answer as gratuitous inventions . Some find this tempting for ...
... meaning has changed relative to the Platonic sense . Reason is no longer defined in terms of a vision of order in the cosmos , but rather is defined procedurally , in terms of instru- mental efficacy , or maximization of the value ...
... meaning there is for us depends in part on our powers of expression , that discovering a framework is interwoven with inventing . But this rapid sketch of some of the most important distinctions which structure people's lives today will ...
... meaning at all . The notion that there is a certain dignity and worth in this life requires a contrast ; no longer , indeed , between this life and some " higher " activity like contemplation , war , active citizenship , or heroic ...
... meaning of life . But it is plain that distinctions of this kind play a role in all three dimensions of moral assessment that I identified above . The sense that human beings are capable of some kind of higher life forms part of the ...
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 |