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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... Affirmation of Ordinary Life 13. " God Loveth Adverbs " 14. Rationalized Christianity 15. Moral Sentiments . ix · 3 • 25 • 53 · • 91 . III • IIS • 127 • 143 . 159 . 177 . 185 • 199 211 • 234 • 248 16. The Providential Order 17. The ...
... affirmation of ordinary life which develops from the early modern period ; third , the expressivist notion of nature as an inner moral source . The first I try to trace through Augustine to Descartes and Montaigne , and on to our own ...
... affirmation of , a given ontology of the human . An important strand of modern naturalist consciousness has tried to hive this second side off and declare it dispensable or irrelevant to morality . The motives are multiple : partly ...
... affirmation of ordinary life . This last is a term of art , meant roughly to designate the life of production and the family . According to traditional , Aristotelian ethics , this has merely infrastruc- tural importance . ' Life ' was ...
... affirmation of ordinary life , although not uncontested and frequently appearing in secularized form , has become one of the most powerful ideas in modern civilization . It underlies our contemporary " bour- geois " politics , so much ...
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 |