Taylor, Charles

Sources of the self : the making of the modern identity / Charles Taylor - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1989 - xii, 601 p. ; 25 cm.

Part one : Identity and the good. Inescapable frameworks -- The self in moral space -- Ethics of inarticulacy -- Moral sources -- Part two : 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 -- Part three : The affirmation of ordinary life. "God loveth adverbs" -- Rationalized Christianity -- Moral sentiments -- The providential order -- The culture of modernity -- Part four : The voice of nature. Fractured horizons -- Radical enlightenment -- Nature as source -- The expressivist turn -- Part five : Subtler languages. Our Victorian contemporaries -- Visions of the Post-Romantic Age -- Epiphanies of modernism -- Conclusion : The conflicts of modernity.

97806748242630674824261


Self (Philosophy)Civilization, Modern.Philosophical anthropology.

BD450 / .T266 1989