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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... seems to them to come close to formulating what they believe , or to saying what for them seems to be the spiritual source they can connect their lives with ; but they are aware of their own uncertainties , of how far they are from ...
... seems to be matched by a recent change in the dominant patterns of psychopathology . It has frequently been remarked by psychoanalysts that the period in which hysterics and patients with phobias and fixations formed the bulk of their ...
... seems to forbid it , as with the warrior - citizen ethic he attacked : this does seem to be refractory to theoretical formulation . Those who place a lot of importance on this latter tend to downplay or denigrate the role and powers of ...
... seems to think of the poet , inspired by mania , as capable of seeing what sober people are not . The widespread belief today that the artist sees farther than the rest of us , attested by our willingness to take seriously the opinions ...
... seems to be a negation of this . Just how this happened is a central theme that I will trace in Part II . But I would like to show here how this modern independence of the self is no negation of the fact that a self only exists among ...
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 |