Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

self-and-identity

• moral philosophy has tended to focus on what it is right to do rather than on what it is good to be… no conceptual place left for the good as object of our love or allegiance

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• our orientation in relation to the good requires not only some framework which defines the shape of the qualitatively higher but also a sense of where we stand in relation to this

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• the perfectly detachable consciousness is an illusion… a shadow cast by the punctual self… the stance of detachment generates the picture of ourselves as pure independent consciousness

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faith-and-doubt

• the legislative, self-proclaiming God is a great benefactor to mankind… Locke's faith was neither insincere nor peripheral to his life

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• the millenarist scenario… sources lie deep in the religious tradition of Judaism and Christianity, and in the messianic expectations which have always been harboured

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work-as-meaning

• the new valuation of commerce… 'le doux commerce', and business activity was supposed to make for more… changing understanding of marriage and the family, and the new importance of sentiment

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