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This essay by Charles Taylor draws from a lecture sponsored by the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program, called “Ways Democracy Can Slip Away,” on October 17, 2016, at Roosevelt House in New York City, and is copublished in The Democracy Papers. Taylor was the program’s 2016 Democracy Fellow.
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918) 1 1 Facts and Propositions 1 2 Particulars, Predicates, and Relations 15 3 Atomic and Molecular Propositions 32 4 Propositions and Facts with More than One Verb: Beliefs, Etc. 47 5 General Propositions and Existence 61 6 Descriptions and Incomplete Symbols 77 7 The Theory of Types and Symbolism: Classes 92.
The essays in this collection reflect most of the concerns with which Charles Taylor has been involved throughout his career -- language, ideas of the self, political participation, the nature of modernity. His intellectual range is extraordinary, as is his ability to clarify what is at stake in difficult philosophical disputes. Taylor's analyses of liberal democracy, welfare economics, and.
Charles Taylor, in full Charles Margrave Taylor, (born November 5, 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Canadian philosopher known for his examination of the modern self.He produced a large body of work that is remarkable for its range—both for the number of areas and issues it addresses as well as for the breadth of scholarship it draws upon.
Atomism has proved the power of the intellectual imagination to identify aspects of an objective truth deeply rooted in the nature of things. Hidden in the history of atomism and in the abstract mysteries of quantum mechanics there must be, still concealed, a trustworthy foundation for the human intellect.
This essay examines various intellectual challenges posed by john Rawls's conception of an overlapping consensus, both in terms of his own approach and also that of Charles Taylor. two questions are entertained: (1) whether various criticisms of Rawls's view are indeed justified and (2) if they are, whether Taylor puts them to rest. though the.