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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... motivated suppression of moral ontology among our contemporaries , in part because the pluralist nature of modern society makes it easier to live that way , but also because of the great weight of modern epistemology ( as with the ...
... motivated itself by moral reasons , and these reasons form an essential part of the picture of the frameworks people live by in our day . This has to do with what I called in section 1.3 the ' affirmation of ordinary life ' . The notion ...
... motivate some of the most bitter conflicts in human life . It is in fact a fundamental drive , with an immense ... motivations in regard to it . We find this kind of question clearly posed in the religious tradition . The Puritan ...
... motivation , as with the householder , but the objective limits of possibility which frame her life . People bent on an artistic career may feel they have it in them to do something significant ; or alternatively , they may come to feel ...
... motivation , coming to see what you were really about all these years , etc. 2. What is real is what you have to deal with , what won't go away just because it doesn't fit with your prejudices . By this token , what you can't help ...
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 |