Sources of the Self
Subtitle: The Making of the Modern Identity
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780674824263
Subjects: Philosophy Of Mind; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Mind & Body; Philosophy / General; General; Civilization, Modern; Ethics; Philosophical anthropology; Self (Philosophy)
Table of contents: title: Part one : Identity and the good.; title: Inescapable frameworks; title: The self in moral space; title: Ethics of inarticulacy; title: Moral sources; title: Part two : Inwardness.; title: Moral topography; title: Plato's self-mastery; title: "In Interiore Homine"; title: Descartes's disengaged reason; title: Locke's punctual self; title: Exploring "l'Humaine Condition"; title: Inner nature; title: A digression on historical explanation; title: Part three : The affirmation of ordinary life.; title: "God loveth adverbs"; title: Rationalized Christianity; title: Moral sentiments; title: The providential order; title: The culture of modernity; title: Part four : The voice of nature.; title: Fractured horizons; title: Radical enlightenment; title: Nature as source; title: The expressivist turn; title: Part five : Subtler languages.; title: Our Victorian contemporaries; title: Visions of the Post-Romantic Age; title: Epiphanies of modernism; title: Conclusion : The conflicts of modernity