Ideas from 'Sources of the Self' by Charles Taylor [1989], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Sources of the Self' by Taylor,Charles [CUP 1992,0-521-42949-8]].

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents

4020	The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 2. Ethical Self

4002	My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self

4006	I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

4003	Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / e. Honour

4021	Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / h. Respect

4005	To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

4004	Consistency presupposes intrinsic description

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

4010	In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

4009	Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil