Sources of the Self

They give a bit more detail on the origins of this.

Now, what happens, and what you just alluded to then, Stuart, was this idea, this emergence of what is now known as expressive individualism, and that's a term that's coined by the contemporary philosopher Charles Taylor in a book called Sources of the Self and he tells the story of how we get to a sense of ourselves a sense of ourselves as individuals and life the meaning of life being to express my individuality you know and to think my own you know think my own thoughts and And so, you know, be an individual, think your own thoughts, all of these things that, that are very new to, this is a very new way of thinking.

Even Plato or Aristotle, even though they were, they encouraged people to think, they weren't encouraging people to think their own thoughts.

There was a sense that they think with a greater reality.

It actually, um, it reminded me of, uh, a very visceral way that Charles Taylor describes, um, like modern forms of idolatry.

So it's, it's in a, I mean, it's one of my like favorite books of, um, of all time, um, Sources of the Self.

That book is so full of incredible insights and really fresh ways to describe things.

But there's, there's one way that he describes idolatry by talking about goods and hypergoods.