Goodness in an age of pluralism: On Charles Taylor's moral theory

Res Publica

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-180

  Seglow, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0009980647     PISSN: 13564765     EISSN: 15728692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02340090     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. C. Taylor, Sources of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
2. Supra n.1, at x.
3. C. Taylor, Philosophical Papers: Volume I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 1.
4. See supra n.3, at 15-44; supra n.1, at ch.2; C. Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), 35-41.
5. Supra n.3, at 28.
6. Supra n.1, at 368-90. This three-fold classification of Taylor's paradigmatic goods I borrow from H. Rosa, "Goods and life-forms: Relativism in Charles Taylor's political philosophy", Radical Philosophy 71 (1995), 20-26, at 23.
7. After this piece was substantially written I came across Rosa's interesting paper which makes the same argument, though in a different way. However, I think Taylor would object to being labelled a relativist on the grounds that it assumes we can view ourselves from outside the goods we hold, which is just what the strong claim says we cannot do.
8. Supra n.1, at 53-85, 337-51.
9. Supra n.1, at 53-90. I have homogenised Taylor's critics somewhat. Rawls is a liberal, though not really a proceduralist; Habermas a proceduralist but not a liberal. For two liberal replies to Taylor see W. Kymlicka, "The Ethics of Inarticulacy", Inquiry 43/2 (1991), 155-82
10. , and D. Weinstock, "The Political Theory of Strong Evaluation", in Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism, ed. J. Tully (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 171-93.
11. See also J. Habermas, "Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State" in Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, ed. A. Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 107-48.
12. Supra n.1, at 4.
13. Supra n.1, at 52.
14. Supra n.1, at 27.
15. C. Taylor, "Responsibility for Self', in The Identities of Persons, ed. A. Rorty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976), 281-99, at 299.
16. Supra n.1, at 495-96.
17. I. McKenzie, "Taylor and Ricoueur on Narrative Identity", in Contemporary Political Studies: Volume II, ed. P. Dunleavy and J. Stanyer (Belfast: Political Studies Association, 1994), 730-39 at 735-36.
18. Supra n.1, at 63.
19. Supra n.1, at 93.
20. C. Taylor, "Comments and Replies", Inquiry 34/2 (1991), 237-54, at 243.
21. Supra n.1, at 64.
22. Supra n.8, at 161.
23. Supra n.8, at 177.
24. Supra n.8, at 177.
25. Supra n.1, at 48.
26. Compare A. MacIntyre, After Virtue (London: Duckworth, 1984, 2nd ed.), ch.15.
27. P. Digeser, Our Politics?, Our Selves? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 87.
28. Supra n.1, at 36.
29. Supra n.1, at 38.
30. See C. Taylor, Philosophical Papers: Volume II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 181-210.
31. Supra n.1, at 58.
32. Supra n.1, at 75.
33. Supra n.6, at 24.
34. Compare supra n.6, at 24.
35. C. Taylor, "Explanation and Practical Reason", in The Quality of Life, ed. M. Nussbaum and A. Sen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 213-30 at 222-23.
36. Supra n.1, at 11.
37. Supra n.1, at 62.
38. Supra n.1, at 503.
39. Supra n.1, at 511.
40. M. Löw-Beer, "Living a Life and the Problem of Existential Impossibility", Inquiry 34/2 (1991), 217-36 at 219-20, 220 (emphasis added), 220.
41. Supra n.37, at 220.
42. Supra n.37, at 226.
43. Supra n.17, at 250.
44. C. Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition" in Gutmann, supra n.8, at 25-73.
45. Supra n.41, at 30.
46. Supra n.41, at 32-35.
47. Supra n.41, at 66-67.
48. Supra n.41, at 73.
49. Supra n.27, at 125.
50. Supra n.41, at 67; supra n.27, at 126.
51. Supra n.27, at 130.
52. J. Rawls, "The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 7/1 (1987), 1-25, at 12.
53. Supra n.8, at 129.
54. Supra n.41, at 59.
55. J.D. Moon, Constructing Community (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
56. Supra n.52, at 108.
57. Supra n.52, at 109.
58. Supra n.52, at 116.
59. For this argument see N. Smith, "Charles Taylor, Strong Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference", Radical Philosophy 68 (1994), 19-27, at 23-24.
60. K.A. Appiah, "Identity, Authenticity, Survival", in Gutmann, supra n.8, 149-63, at 160.
61. Supra n.57, at 161.
62. Supra n.41, at 30.
63. Supra n.57, at 162-63.
64. Supra n.1, at 502.