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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... formulating more fully the nature of the response as well as spelling out what all this presupposes about ourselves and our situation in the world . What is articulated here is the background we 8. IDENTITY AND THE GOOD.
... formulating what people already implicitly but unproblematically acknowledge ; nor is it showing what people really rely on in the teeth of their ideological denials . Rather it could only be carried forward by showing that one or ...
... formulation for this principle of respect has come to be in terms of rights . This has become central to our legal systems — and in this form has spread around the world . But in addition , something analogous has become central to our ...
The Making of the Modern Identity Charles Taylor. formulation , because that language by its very nature excludes the power of waiver . To talk of universal , natural , or human rights is to connect respect for human life and integrity ...
... formulations as vague or confused , the fact remains that we all have an immediate sense of what kind of worry is being articulated in these words . We can perhaps get at the point of these questions in the following way . Questions ...
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 |