Sublime

Charles Taylor describes ours as a “cross-pressured” situation,

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.

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.

Charles Taylor fut capable de démontrer (dans son important Sources of the Self)que ces deux versions de la nature, celle des Lumières et celle des Romanti-ques de la nature, étaient toutes deux fondées sur la même conception moderne de la nature, nommément, la nature en tant que grand ordre ou système entrelacé de processus empiriques et qui const

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

It was a revolutionary time,