Sources of the Self The Making of the Modern Identity

Name: Sources of the Self The Making of the Modern Identity
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ISBN: 9780674824263

ISBN-10: 0674824261

ISBN-13: 9780674824263

Edition: 1989

Authors: Charles C. Taylor

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In 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. The major insight of Sources of the…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.13" long x 1.67" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Preface



Identity and the Good



Inescapable Frameworks



The Self in Moral Space



Ethics of Inarticulacy



Moral Sources



Inwardness



Moral Topography



Plato's Self-Mastery



""In Interiore Homine""



Descartes's Disengaged Reason



Locke's Punctual Self



Exploring ""l'Humaine Condition""



Inner Nature



A Digression on Historical Explanation



The Affirmation of Ordinary Life



""God Loveth Adverbs""



Rationalized Christianity



Moral Sentiments 16