- Preface
- I. Identity and the Good
- 1. Inescapable Frameworks
- 2. The Self in Moral Space
- 3. Ethics of Inarticulacy
- 4. Moral Sources
- 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
- 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
- IV. The Voice of Nature
- 18. Fractured Horizons
- 19. Radical Enlightenment
- 20. Nature as Source
- 21. The Expressivist Turn
- 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


Sources of the Self
The Making of the Modern Identity
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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00
ISBN 9780674824263
Publication Date: 03/01/1992
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Awards & Accolades
- Charles Taylor Is Winner of the 2016 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture • 2008 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy • 2007 Templeton Prize