Abstract:Philosophers such as Charles Taylor have claimed that selfhood is a distinctly modern phenomenon, associated with inwardness, inner depths, and creativity. In this conception, selfhood is defined in terms of “radical reflexivity”, which saw its emergence with the likes of Descartes. Thus, according to Taylor, it is only with modern people that we see the appearance of selfhood and subjectivity, whereas premoderns did not have a notion of the self, because they lacked the essential conceptions of inwardness and… Show more
“…Muhammad U. Faruque (2022) establishes this comparison upon a conceptualization articulated in the works of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (b. 1931), particularly in Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Taylor 1989).…”
“Sufism is the major sacrifice offered by Islam on the altar of its modernization”, declares a contemporary scholar while explaining the modern challenges faced by Sufism (Weismann 2015, p [...]
“…Muhammad U. Faruque (2022) establishes this comparison upon a conceptualization articulated in the works of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (b. 1931), particularly in Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Taylor 1989).…”
“Sufism is the major sacrifice offered by Islam on the altar of its modernization”, declares a contemporary scholar while explaining the modern challenges faced by Sufism (Weismann 2015, p [...]
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