Sources of the Self

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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 Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor's goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.

Kiadó:: Harvard University Press
Kiadás éve:: 1989
Kiadás helye:: Cambridge
ISBN:: 9780674824263
Kötés típusa:: ragasztott papír
Terjedelem:: 601
Nyelv:: angol
Méret:: Szélesség: 16.00cm, Magasság: 23.00cm
Kategória:: Filozófia

Idegennyelv Nyelvek angol

Preface . ix

PART I
Identity and the Good
1. Inescapable Frameworks ... • 3
2. The Self in Moral Space . . . 2.5
3. Ethics of Inarticulacy 53
4. Moral Sources 91

PART II
Inwardness
5. Moral Topography . 1 1 1
6. Plato's Self-Mastery 115
7. "In Interiore Homine" 12.7
8. Descartes's Disengaged Reason 143
9. Locke's Punctual Self 159
10. Exploring "1'Humaine Condition" 177
11. Inner Nature 185
12. A Digression on Historical Explanation 199

PART III
The Affirmation of Ordinary Life
13. "God Loveth Adverbs" . 2.11
14. Rationalized Christianity 2-34
15. Moral Sentiments 2.48

16. The Providential Order . . . 2.66
17. The Culture of Modernity .. .285

The Voice of Nature PART IV
18. Fractured Horizons ..... • 305
19. Radical Enlightenment . . . . . 32.1
20. Nature as Source 355
21. The Expressivist Turn . 368

Subtler Languages PART V
22. Our Victorian Contemporaries 393
23. Visions of the Post-Romantic Age • 419
24. Epiphanies of Modernism . . 456

25. Conclusion: The Conflicts of Modernity • 495
Notes 52.3
Index 595