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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... desires , inclinations , or choices , but rather stand independent of these and offer standards by which they can be judged . So while it may not be judged a moral lapse that I am living a life that is not really worthwhile or ...
... desires , inclinations , or choices , that they represent standards by which these desires and choices are judged . These are obviously two linked facets of the same sense of higher worth . The goods which command our awe must also ...
... desire . One of the most celebrated variants in the ancient world was Stoicism . And with the development of the modern scientific world - view a specifically modern variant has developed . This is the ideal of the disengaged self ...
... desires and aversions , likes and dislikes . On this picture , frameworks are things we invent , not answers to questions which inescapably pre - exist for us , independent of our answer or inability to answer . To see frameworks as ...
... desires , capacities , etc. This is part of what is meant by having ( or being ) an Ego in the Freudian sense , and in related uses . This strategic capacity requires some kind of reflective awareness . But there is an important ...
Contents
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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 |