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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity is a work of philosophy by Charles Taylor, published in 1989 by Harvard University Press. It is an attempt to articulate and to write a history of the "modern identity".
- R. A. Sharpe, Charles Taylor
- 624
- 1989
- 1989
22. Nov. 2020 · Die in Sources of the Self formulierte Kritik am neuzeitlichen Individualismus, Utilitarismus oder der prozeduralen Ethik führte innerhalb der Philosophie, Theologie, Sozial-, Politik- und Humanwissenschaften zu Diskussionen, die im weitesten Sinne im Kontext einer inhaltlichen oder substantiellen Theorie des Guten geführt werden.
1. März 1992 · 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 ...
1. März 2012 · Taylor focuses on three areas of ethical commitment and self-definition that are central to the western European tradition: the development through history of a sense of “inwardness” and its connection with our emerging notions of individuality and selfhood; what Taylor calls “the affirmation of ordinary life,” or the development of the ...
1. März 1992 · 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 ...
The origins of the self are also manifold and can be considered from developmental, biological, intrapsychic, and interpersonal perspectives. The self is connected to core motives (e.g., coherence, agency, and communion) and is manifested in the form of both personal identities and social identities.
I focus on three major facets of this identity: first, modern inwardness, the sense of ourselves as beings with inner depths, and the connected notion that we are 'selves'; second, the affirmation of ordinary life which develops from the early modern period; third, the expressivist notion of nature as an inner moral source.
