The ethics of authenticity
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Everywhere we hear of decline, of a world that was better before the influence of modernity. While some lament Western culture’s slide into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity’s challenges.
“Charles Taylor is a philosopher of broad reach and many talents, but his most striking talent is a gift for interpreting different traditions, cultures and philosophies to one another…[This book is] full of good things.” —New York Times Book Review
Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity’s challenges.
“The great merit of Taylor’s brief, non-technical, powerful book…is the vigor with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social…Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people…The core of Taylor’s argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that ‘respect for difference’ requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture—no matter how vicious or stupid.”
—Richard Rorty, London Review of Books
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 augustus 2018
Aantal pagina's: 160
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Charles Taylor
Tweede Auteur: C. A. Taylor
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 12 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 12 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 159 g
EAN: 9780674987692