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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... 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 with , inventing . Finding a sense ...
... sense of emptiness , flatness , futility , lack of purpose , or loss of self - esteem.14 Just what the relation is ... sense that some action , or mode of life , or mode of feeling is incomparably higher than the others which are more ...
... sense of higher worth . The goods which command our awe must also function in some sense as standards for us . Looking at some common examples of such frameworks will help to focus the discussion . One of the earliest in our ...
... sense ' of a qualitative distinction . It can be only this ; or it can be spelled out in a highly explicit way , in a philosophically formulated ontology or anthropology . In the case of some frameworks it may be optional whether one ...
... sense of our moral responses . That is , when we try to spell out what it is that we presuppose when we judge that a certain form of life is truly worthwhile , or place our dignity in a certain achievement or status , or define our ...
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 |