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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... particular , what I want to bring out and examine is the richer background languages in which we set the basis and point of the moral obligations we acknowledge . More broadly , I want to explore the background picture of our spiritual ...
... particular person's background can be subject to controversy . The agent himself or herself is not necessarily the best authority , at least not at the outset . This is the case first of all because the moral ontology behind any ...
... particular definition , at least not to any of the ones on offer . Something similar arises for many of them on the question of what makes human life worth living or what confers meaning on their individual lives . Most of us are still ...
... particular talents , or the demands incumbent on someone with my endowment , or of what constitutes a rich , meaningful life — as against one concerned with secondary matters or trivia . These are issues of strong evaluation , because ...
... particular sense I am using it here , is our sense of ourselves as commanding ( attitudinal ) respect . The issue of what one's dignity consists in is no more avoidable than those of why we ought to respect others ' rights or what makes ...
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 |