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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... central to our legal systems — and in this form has spread around the world . But in addition , something analogous has become central to our moral thinking . The notion of a right , also called a ' subjective right ' , as this ...
... central feature of the modern Western moral outlook . This change of form naturally goes along with one in content , with the conception of what it is to respect someone . Autonomy is now central to this . So the Lockean trinity of ...
... central themes of Christian spirituality . Modern utilitarianism is one of its secularized variants . And as such it connects with a more fundamental feature to Christian spirituality , which comes to receive new and unprecedented ...
... central place given to autonomy , it defines a version of this demand which is peculiar to our civilization , the modern West . 1.4 Thus far I have been exploring only one strand of our moral intuitions , albeit an extremely important ...
... central modern insights about the value of ordinary life . We sympathize with both the hero and the anti - hero ; and we dream of a world in which one could be in the same act both . This is the confusion in which naturalism takes root ...
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 |