From Library Journal
This book is primarily a historical account of the modernist protest against the disengaged and instrumental modes of thought and action that arose when theistically grounded morality crumbled, but that themselves focused too little upon our inner life, i.e., our powers of creative imagination and the substantive goods of ordinary life, which Taylor alleges give meaning to human life. Associating each ideology with a particular conception of our identity as selves, he defends the modern view, keeping in mind that self-realization must recognize that some things are important beyond the self. Taylor rambles somewhat and often talks about " the good," as though human beings were fungible in their capacities for appreciation and action; but the wealth of illustrative material and frequent insights are thought-provoking. For scholarly collections.
- Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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查尔斯·泰勒:加拿大哲学家,是晚近西方特别是英美道德哲学中首屈一指的思想家、社群主义的主将。曾任牛津大学齐切里哲学与伦理学讲座教授,现任加拿大麦基尔大学哲学与政治科学教授。20世纪70年代以来,泰勒以其对黑格尔哲学的再解读、对原子主义式的消极自由的批评、对社群价值的强调、对西方文化中自我认同观念发展的梳理、对承认的政治的研究以及对文化多元论的论证,强烈地影响着西方思想界。1989年出版的《自我的根源》,从自我或主体概念的发展角度对现代性做出的著名的“解读”,奠定了他在西方思想界的重要地位。
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我作为一个自我,我的身份,本质上是由事物对我有意义的方式定义的。正如人们广泛讨论的那样,这些事情对我来说意义重大,我的身份问题也得到了解决,只有通过一种解释的语言,我才接受了这些问题的有效表达。从他或她的自我解释中抽象出一个人是什么,是问一个从根本上错误的问题,一个原则上不能回答的问题。
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