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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... respect , you have to call to mind what it is to feel the claim of human suffering , or what is repugnant about injustice , or the awe you feel at the fact of human life . No argument can take someone from a neutral stance towards the ...
... respect for life discussed above , would appeal to the theistic account I referred to and invoke our common status as God's creatures ; others would reject this for a purely secular account and perhaps invoke the dignity of rational ...
... respect , would not feel ready to make a final choice . They concur that through their moral beliefs they acknowledge some ground in human nature or the human predicament which makes human beings fit objects of respect , but they ...
... respect . In one form or another , this seems to be a human universal ; that is , in every society , there seems to be some such sense . The boundary around those beings worthy of respect may be drawn parochially in earlier cultures ...
... respect someone . Autonomy is now central to this . So the Lockean trinity of natural rights includes that to liberty . And for us respecting personality involves as a crucial feature respecting the person's moral autonomy . With 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 |