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As Charles Taylor puts it, in modernity we remade the human person into a “buffered self,” protected and autonomous and independent, free to determine our own good and pursue our own “authentic” path.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea
Taylor called this authenticity, and it became the unreachable horizon of modern life. It’s a concept that makes sense only in its absence; we recognize inauthenticity, phoniness, when someone’s clearly being a poseur. Yet the struggle to feel authentic—this is very real, even if we know better. In Taylor’s telling, everyone becomes a kind of artis
... See moreHua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity: Pluralist and Emergentist Directions
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Taylor. He’s careful throughout to avoid asking about the truth of the ideas he discusses. That is appropriate as his task is descriptive and explanatory.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
As Charles Taylor puts it, in modernity we remade the human person into a “buffered self,” protected and autonomous and independent, free to determine our own good and pursue our own “authentic” path.