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Summary: A powerful analysis of Modernity
Review: Usually Modernity is a cause of a big division: there are some people who love it and some people who hate it. Even scholars have a big difficulty to study the topic with a relative neutral point of view. Fortunately, Taylor succeded to a write an intelligent, deep and powerful analysis to Modernity and its impact in the psychology of the self.In fact Taylor mixed history, theology, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. to build a wonderful explanation for the development of the man of the last centuries. Amazing work
Rating:
Summary: A powerful analysis of Modernity
Review: Usually Modernity is a cause of a big division: there are some people who love it and some people who hate it. Even scholars have a big difficulty to study the topic with a relative neutral point of view. Fortunately, Taylor succeded to a write an intelligent, deep and powerful analysis to Modernity and its impact in the psychology of the self. In fact Taylor mixed history, theology, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. to build a wonderful explanation for the development of the man of the last centuries. Amazing work
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Summary: An articulate philosophy of man
Review: With 'Sources of the Self' Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has written a seminal work along the lines of Ernst Cassirer's classic 'An Essay on Man'. Deploring the minimal ethics of modernity and dissatisfied with post-modern nihilism, Taylor positions his moral theory in the Aristotelean tradition of 'ethos'. But Taylor does not embrace a pre-defined, teleological destiny. Rather, his premise is that in articulating 'the self' we will discover who we are, what we are supposed to do and where we are going. Taylor's quest into what made man into what he is, is traced back to classic Greek thought and Augustinian theology. Subsequently the author takes us to early modernity: from Locke, via Neoplatonists like Shaftesbury, to the period of Romanticism. Eventually this odyssee of the mind is germinating into present-day man as a self-expressing creature. The richness of Taylor's argumentation is often dazzling; here speaks a man of wide and deep erudition, an authoritative voice of intellectual history, seemingly equally at home in science, history and the arts. In the post-modern wilderness of de-construction, Taylor's articulate and subtle history of mentality is an intellectual joy.
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