Preface

PART I Identity and the Good

1. Inescapable Frameworks

2. The Self in Moral Space

3. Ethics of Inarticulacy

4. Moral Sources

PART II Inwardness

5. Moral Topography

6. Plato's Self-Mastery

7. "In Interiore Homine"

8. Descartes's Disengaged Reason

9. Locke's Punctual Self

10. Exploring "l'Humaine Condition"

11. Inner Nature

12. A Digression on Historical Explanation

PART III The Affirmation of Ordinary Life

13. "God Loveth Adverbs"

14. Rationalized Christianity

15. Moral Sentiments

16. The Providential Order

17. The Culture of Modernity

PART IV The Voice of Nature

18. Fractured Horizons 19. Radical Enlightenment

20. Nature as Source

21. The Expressivist Turn

PART V Subtler Languages

22. Our Victorian Contemporaries

23. Visions of the Post-Romantic Age

24. Epiphanies of Modernism

25. Conclusion: The Conflicts of Modernity

Notes

Index