The Ethics of Authenticity-Fast Shipping

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Title: The Ethics of Authenticity

Author: Charles Taylor

ISBN: 9780674987692

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reprint

Number of Pages: 160

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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“Charles Taylor is a philosopher of broad reach and many talents, but his most striking talent is a gift for interpreting different traditions, cultures and philosophies to one another…[This book is] full of good things.” —New York Times Book Review

Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity’s challenges. “The great merit of Taylor’s brief, non-technical, powerful the vigor with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other core of Taylor’s argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that ‘respect for difference’ requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture–no matter how vicious or stupid.”
–Richard Rorty, London Review of Books