Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Taylor, Charles
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 1989 - 601
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.
9780674824263
Self (Philosophy)
Civilization, Modern
Philosophical anthropology
Ethics
126 TAY
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 1989 - 601
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.
9780674824263
Self (Philosophy)
Civilization, Modern
Philosophical anthropology
Ethics
126 TAY
