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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
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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
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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.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and
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