Introduction Charles Taylor: A Biographical Sketch

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Charles Taylor: A Biographical Sketch 3
5. Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy of Language
6. To Follow a Rule 21
7. Charles Taylor's Conception of Language: And the Current Debates about a Theory of Meaning 36
8. Taylor's Engaged Pluralism 49
9. Religion and Modernity
10. State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship 65
11. Taylor, Rawls, and Secularism 82
12. Moral Agency and the Self I
13. What If Anything Is Wrong with Positive Liberty? : The Struggles of Agency In a Non-Ideal World 95
14. What's Right with Positive Liberty: Agency, Autonomy, and The Other 114
15. The Interpretation of Modernity
16. Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos? :German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity 127
17. Taylor, Fullness, and Vitality 138
18. Moral Agency and the Self II
19. Self-Creation or Self-Discovery? 151
20. An Explicitative Conception of Moral Theory 160
21. Charles Taylor and Ethical Naturalism 182
22. Political Philosophy, Recognition, and Multiculturalism
23. Protecting Freedom of Religion in the Secular Age 197
24. Two Conceptions of Indian Secularism 207
25. Memory, Multiculturalism, and the Sources of Democratic Solidarity 228
26. Canadian Politics
27. Recognition in Its Place 247
28. A Conversation between Charles Taylor, Jacob T. Levy, Daniel M. Weinstock, and Jocelyn Maclure 265
29. Notes 291
30. Bibliography 321
31. Contributors 337
32. Index 343