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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... seen — a condition that Nietzsche seems to have approached sometimes it still must be on the basis of my reading of others ' thought and language . I see the ' genealogy ' underlying their morality , and therefore hold them too to be ...
... seen the drama repeated that the ones who often react this way turn out precisely to be the children whose growth the householder so cherished . This is just one example , a peculiarly poignant one in our day , of how this aspiration to ...
... direction towards what I am not yet is what Alasdair Maclntyre captures in his notion quoted above that life is seen as a ' quest'.27 This of course connects with an important philosophical issue about 48 • IDENTITY AND THE GOOD.
... seen in two ways . It could be something we did or , ideally , something we could bring under voluntary control . This kind of view underlay Hare's prescriptivism : 3 the logic of our value terms is such that we can separate out a ...
... seen in this section how erroneous this is . But if , as we have just seen , our language of good and right makes sense only against a background understanding of the forms of social interchange in a given society and its perceptions of ...
Contents
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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 |