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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... later works . But I try to set out in the concluding chapter what flows from this story of the emerging modern identity . Briefly , it is that this identity is much richer in moral sources than its condemners allow , but that this ...
... Later , I may innovate . I may develop an original way of understanding myself and human life , at least one which is in sharp disagreement with my family and background . But the innovation can only take place from the base in our ...
... later parts , where I will trace some of the history of the modern identity . But I need to say a word about it here in order to overcome a common confusion . First , it is clear that the most important spiritual traditions of our ...
... Later , and only for part of our language , we can deviate , and this thanks to our relating to absent partners as well and to our confronting our thought with any partner in this new , indirect way , through a reading of the ...
... later ( section 1.1 ) , I redefined this target as the moral ontology which lies behind and makes sense of these intuitions and responses . As the discussion has proceeded , I have come to describe my goal in different terms again : we ...
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 |