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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... society over the last three or four centuries and getting these somehow in focus , continues to preoccupy us . The works of major contemporary thinkers such as Foucault , Habermas , and MacIntyre focus on it . Others , while not dealing ...
... society makes it easier to live that way , but also because of the great weight of modern epistemology ( as with the naturalists evoked above ) and , behind this , of the spiritual outlook associated with this epistemology . So the work ...
... society , there seems to be some such sense . The boundary around those beings worthy of respect may be drawn parochially in earlier cultures , but there always is such a class . And among what we recognize as higher civilizations ...
... society might ask whether his tale of courageous deeds lives up to the promise of his lineage or the demands of his station . People in a religious culture often ask whether the demand of conventional piety are sufficient for them or ...
... society in the modern West . This term ' horizon ' is the one that is frequently used to make this point . What Weber called ' disenchantment ' , the dissipation of our sense of the cosmos as a meaningful order , has allegedly destroyed ...
Contents
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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 |