Charles Taylor on affirmation, mutilation, and theism: A retrospective reading of sources of the self

Journal of Religion

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-39

  Greenway, William ^a  

^a Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary ^*

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EID: 34247294290     PISSN: 00224189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/490554     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Quentin Skinner, "Who Are 'We'? Ambiguities of the Modern Self," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (June 1991): 133-53, esp. 133.
2. Charles Taylor, "Comments and Replies," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (June 1991): 237-54, esp. 240-41.
3. Quentin Skinner, "Modernity and Disenchantment: Some Historical Reflections," pp. 37-48;
4. Charles Taylor, "Reply and Re-articulation II: Interpreting Modernity (Quentin Skinner)," pp. 222-26, both in Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question, ed. James Tully (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
5. Skinner, "Modernity and Disenchantment," p. 47.
6. Taylor, "Reply and Re-articulation II," p. 226.
7. See, e.g., Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 10-11, 74-76, 219, 270, 310-11, 317-19, 342, 516, 518, 521.
8. See, inter alia, David Braybrooke, "Inward and Outward with the Modern Self," Dialogue 33 (1994): 101-8;
9. Melissa Lane, "God or Orienteering? A Critical Study of Taylor's Sources of the Self Ratio, n.s., 5, no. 1 (June 1992): 46-56;
10. Martin Low-Beer, "Living a Life and the Problem of Existential Impossibility," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal ofPhilosophy 34 (June 1991): 217-36;
11. Michael Rosen, "Must We Return to Moral Realism?" Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 34 (June 1991): 183-94.
12. See Charles Taylor, "Reply to Braybrooke and de Sousa," Dialogue 33 (1994): 125-31
13. "Comments and Replies," pp. 237-54
14. and "Reply to Commentators," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (March 1994): 203-13.
15. For the Sartre illustration, see "Existentialism Is a Humanism," trans. Philip Moiret, in Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre, ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: New American Library, 1975), pp. 345-69, esp. pp. 345-56.
16. I am building on Taylor's invocation of this illustration in "What Is Human Agency?" in his Human Agency and Language, Philosophical Papers 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 15-44, esp. pp. 29-31.
17. Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 69.
18. Taylor, "Comments and Replies" (n. 5 above), p. 243.
19. Taylor, "Reply to Commentators" (n. 14 above), p. 208.
20. Taylor, "Comments and Replies" (n. 5 above), pp. 245-46.
21. Taylor, Sources of the Self (n. 12 above), p. 342.
22. Skinner, "Who Are 'We'?" (n. 1 above), p. 149.
23. See William James, "Lecture VIII," in his The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: Penguin, 1982), pp. 166-88.
24. Skinner, "Who Are 'We'?" p. 142.