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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... reflects the generalization and popularization in our culture of that " loss of horizon " , which a few alert spirits were foretelling for a century or more . 1.5 Of course , the same naturalist temper that I mentioned above , which ...
... reflects a higher moral benevolence , than following the traditional definitions of virtue , piety , and the like . This is even a familiar picture . It is the utilitarian ideologue , who has played such a role in our culture . But this ...
... reflected in the examples which quite naturally came to mind in my discussion above , where I spoke of identifying oneself as a Catholic or an anarchist , or as an Armenian or a Quebecois . Normally , however , one dimension would not ...
... reflection and after correction of the errors we can detect make the best sense of our lives ? ' Making the best sense ' here includes not only offering the best , most realistic orientation about the good but also allowing us best to ...
... reflection within our own culture . Thus we tend to believe that our culture has gained relative to its pre- seventeenth - century predecessor in having a superior model of science . This model is superior partly in respect of the ...
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 |