i am not a prof. possibly i was most impressed it seems to me not simplifying arguments but not drowning in having no authentic pov...Taylor tries to strike a transcendental stance contrasted with “knockers” and “boosters” of modernity, particularly the culture of authenticity.
He clearly cares about a wide audience being able to understand his ideas. Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity is a concise, clear discussion reexamining these and closely related "malaises" of modernity while focusing on meaning, its importance in our lives, and why our attempts to find our identities matter--whether these identities be personal, social, political, aesthetic, or scientific. We’d love your help. A Critical Discussion About Existential Authenticity in Journalism Ethics.Who Are We?
Something like this has perhaps always existed. But mostly, I think this book requires and deserves close attention and a bit of work on the part of the reader, and I just didn’t seem to have it in me. In particular, I appreciated the way in which he carefully distinguished higher forms of the ideal of authenticity from degenerate forms of the ideal. I can’t grasp plenty of complex books, and that’s fine if it’s a matter of subject matter that my education hasn’t covered and they’re written very technically. The concrete gains of modernity are, I freely admit, ambiguous at best. Taylor's book remains timely both because of the ongoing chalThis is one of my favorite books and the best introduction to Taylor's unique hermeneutic approach to philosophy and political theory. Nonetheless, I found Taylor's arguments to be perceptive and convincing. I think though that Taylor still has iron in his critique both of the critiquers and the critiqued. That’s what you get for brevity though. But Taylor wrote well and plainly. The rub was that becoming an individual is often seen as in opposition to conventional morality in our society. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This could easily have been condensed into 50 pages. He highlights 3 issues but only really discusses one of them for almost 100 pages.
In fact, one distinctive feature of recent Western intellectual developments has been a shift to what is called the “age of authenticity” (Taylor 2007; Ferrarra 1998). He has written many other books, such as Review Essay : The Persistence of Authenticity: Alessandro Ferrara, Modernity and Authenticity: A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Albany, Ny: Suny Press, 1993) Charles Taylor, the Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 1992) [Originally Published as the Malaise of Modernity (Concord, Ontario: House of Anansi Press, 1991)].
He aims to recover the moral ideals behind modern society. He is attempting to keep a form of------------------------------------------------- International Management, Sixth Edition Hodgetts−Luthans−Doh Contemporary Management, Fourth Edition Jones−George Driving Shareholder Value Morin−Jarrell Wan na get it? At the heart of the modern malaise, according to most accounts, is the notion of authenticity, of self-fulfillment, which seems to render ineffective the whole tradition of common values and social commitment. Taylor examines three problems with the overall modern societal structures and cultures, and argues that these reinforce a more fundamental, problematic ethical ideal of Taylor examines three problems with the overall modern societal structures and cultures, and argues that these reinforce a more fundamental, problematic ethical ideal of My eye falls upon words of philosophy that are easy to read: tears come to my eyesMy eye falls upon words of philosophy that are easy to read: tears come to my eyesA short philosophy book that perfectly illustrates my own existential struggles and moral dilemmas in our modern society.