Charles Taylor's Treatise on 'Sources of the Self' and Its Significance In Moral Education
| Autor: | Ching-Pei Ling, 林京霈 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 93 This study inquired into C. Taylor’s treatise on “sources of the self” and expounded its significance in moral education. Firstly, it investigated the acceptable background of Taylor’s thought about “sources of the self”. This part was divided into two levels: one was the understanding of Taylor’s life history, and the other was the knowing of several philosophers’ relevant thoughts, including Herder’s philosophy of language, Hegel’s philosophy of mind and history, Heidegger’s “Ontologie” and Wittgenstein’s arguments against the private language. Secondly, it dealt with Taylor’s moral thought, including the connection between a self and goods in the moral space, and the relevant conceptions of self-identity. When discussing the changes of the relationship between a self and the moral source, Taylor used historical approach and then distributed the moral sources into three domains: one was based on the theism; the second one centred on disengaged reason; the third family of view was the form of inner path. In addition, Taylor’s analysis of the problems of modernity also revealed the moral ideal which has been distorted by the visions of instrumental reason and the expressive fulfillment. Finally, Taylor not only wanted to retrieve the moral ideals of disengaged reason and expressivism, but also tried to connect the two families of the moral sources by his philosophy of language and the ethics of authenticity. By doing this, Taylor wanted to unit human’s reason, freedom, feeling and the nature, and also to retrieve human’s spirituality. Based on the above discussions, the implication of Taylor’s treatise of “sources of the self” for moral education is expounded at the end of this study. |
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