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Our sin is our resistance to going along with God's initiative in making suffering reparative. We ar...

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We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our signif...

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We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity,...

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[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate ...

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Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its un...

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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments an...

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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a singl...

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The Ethics of Authenticity

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

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Charles Taylor (philosopher)

Philosopher

Born: 1931-11-05

Died: N/A

Charles Margrave Taylor (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at the McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, history of philosophy, and intellectual history.More