'Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living, or what confers meaning on individual lives', writes Charles Taylor in Sources of the Self. 'This is an essentially modern predicament.' Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis, analysing the writings of such thinkers as Augustine, Descartes, Montaign...
'Most of us are still groping for answers about what makes life worth living, or what confers meaning on individual lives', writes Charles Taylor in Sources of the Self. 'This is an essentially modern predicament.' Charles Taylor's latest book sets out to define the modern identity by tracing its genesis, analysing the writings of such thinkers as Augustine, Descartes, Montaigne, Luther, and many others. This then serves as a starting point for a renewed understanding of modernity. Taylor argues that modern subjectivity has its roots in ideas of human good, and is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and attain the good. The modern turn inwards is far from being a disastrous rejection of rationality, as its critics contend, but has at its heart what Taylor calls the affirmation of ordinary life. He concludes that the modern identity, and its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, is far richer in moral sources that its detractors allow. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defence of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.
或许，所有有可能够得上“伟大”二字的现代人文著作都是在对着同一个问题作出的反应，即：现代文明的危机。 查尔斯·泰勒在他的巨著《自我的根源：现代认同的形成》（Sources of the self: The Making of the modern Identity）中，奋起反抗当代主流思想界对道德本体论的集体压...
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读中文翻译的时候有一些词不太懂什么意思，看了下wiki的英文概要，对号入座，发现还是英文更好理解一些： naturalism（自然主义） reductive naturalism（还原论自然主义） ——“a reductive naturalism that holds that all human activity, and hence all human values, can...
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序言 现代认同的历史[an attempt to articulate and write a history of the modern identity. With this term, I want to designate the ensemble of (largely unarticulated) understandings of what it is to be a human agent: the senses of inwardness, freedom, individ...
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查尔斯·泰勒 作者
王凿
译林出版社2012版
诚明
译林出版社2012版
信天翁翁
译林出版社2001版
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