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31	Ethically Authentic: Escaping Egoism Through Relational Authenticity Malo-Fletcher, Natalie 18 April 2011 (has links) Philosophers who show interest in authenticity tend to narrowly focus on its capacity to help people evade conformity and affirm individuality, a simplistic reduction that neglects authenticity’s moral potential and gives credence to the many critics who dismiss it as a euphemism for excessive individualism. Yet when conceived ethically, authenticity can also allow for worthy human flourishing without falling prey to conformity’s opposite extreme—egoism. This thesis proposes a relational conception of authenticity that can help prevent the often destructive excess of egoism while also offsetting the undesirable deficiency of heteronomy, concertedly moving agents towards socially responsible living. It demonstrates how authenticity necessarily has ethical dimensions when rooted in existentialist and dialogical frameworks. It also defines egoism as a form of self-deception rooted in flawed logic that cannot be considered “authentic” by relational standards. Relational authenticity recognizes the interpersonal relationships and social engagements that imbue meaning into agents’ lives, fostering a balance between personal ambitions and social obligations, and enabling more consistently moral lifestyles. Authenticity Egoism Ethics Moral Responsibility Individualism Jean-Paul Sartre Charles Taylor Charles Guignon
32	From recognition to agonistic reconciliation: a critical multilogue on Indigenous-settler relations in Canada Harland, Fraser 20 December 2012 (has links) Theories of recognition, once seen as a promising approach for addressing the politics of difference and identity, have recently faced a sustained critique. This thesis participates in that critical project by confronting two recognition theorists – Charles Taylor and Nancy Fraser – with the injustices of colonialism in Canada as articulated by Indigenous scholars, particularly Dale Turner. The resultant critical multilogue highlights the shortcomings in each theory, but also points to their key strengths. These insights inform a discussion of agonistic reconciliation, a concept that transcends the limits of the recognition paradigm and offers hope for more just relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers in Canada. / Graduate Recognition Reconciliation Canada Indigenous Peoples Agonistic Democracy Charles Taylor Nancy Fraser
33	Shadow and Voice: The Vampire's Debt to Secular Modernity Maynard, Luke R. J. 18 December 2013 (has links) The past few years have seen a renewed critical interest in the vampires and vampirism of English literature, owing both to their growing influence in popular culture and a more inclusive reordering of the literary canon. Much of this recent work has typically approached vampirism through a psychoanalytic lens inherited from Gothic criticism, characterized by a dependence on Freud, Lacan, and Foucault, and often by a model of crisis in which these supernatural figures of terror are supposed to symbolize cultural anxieties with varying degrees of historicity. This dissertation builds upon the narrative of secularization set out in Charles Taylor’s recent work, A Secular Age, to answer the need for a new and alternative narrative of what function the vampire serves within English literature, and how it came to prominence there. The literary history of vampirism is reconsidered in light of the new sociological observations made by Taylor, hinging upon two key methodological principles: first, that Taylor’s new secularization narrative has the potential to reshape the way we think of literature in general and our literary relationship to the supernatural in particular; and second, that the fiction generated during this period of upheaval has much more to tell us about secularization, broadening our understanding of the ideological shifts and changing relationships to the supernatural that brought forth this uniquely modern monster in literature. / Graduate / 0593 / 0318 / 0358 / glukemaynard@gmail.com Secularization Charles Taylor Vampire Gothic social imaginary Giaour Christabel Vampyre Dracula Modernity
34	Att förstå och leva i ett samhälle präglat av mångfald : Tre filosofiska perspektiv på valda delar av ämnesplanen i religionskunskap Nyberg, Linn January 2017 (has links) Denna studie syftar till att, genom en komparativ ideologianalys, analysera tre valda filosofiska modeller och uttolka vilka implikationer dessa kan ha vad gäller religionsämnets syftesbeskrivning ur LGY11; att eleverna ska "förstå och leva i ett samhälle präglat av mångfald." Studien syftar inte till att argumentera för någon specifik modell. De modeller som analyserats är hämtade ur verk författade av Charles Taylor, Seyla Benhabib samt Martha Nussbaum. Analysen påvisade såväl skillnader som likheter mellan de olika modellerna. Analysen påvisade att kristendomens särställning som "förvaltare av den svenska värdegrunden" kan vara en problematisk aspekt av läroplanen då kristendomen kan tas som neutral, objektiv eller tolkas som innehållande en "god" essentiell kärna. Ett annat resultat vilket uttolkades av de analyserade modellerna var att förståelse för de andra, måste föregås av en kritisk granskning av, eller medvetenhet om, den egna utgångspunkten. Detta tolkades som ytterst relevant i en religionsundervisning vilken syftar till att uppnå förståelse för mångfald Religionsundervisning mångfald kultur läroplan filosofiska perspektiv Charles Taylor Martha Nussbaum Seyla Benhabib Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
35	Ethically Authentic: Escaping Egoism Through Relational Authenticity Malo-Fletcher, Natalie January 2011 (has links) Philosophers who show interest in authenticity tend to narrowly focus on its capacity to help people evade conformity and affirm individuality, a simplistic reduction that neglects authenticity’s moral potential and gives credence to the many critics who dismiss it as a euphemism for excessive individualism. Yet when conceived ethically, authenticity can also allow for worthy human flourishing without falling prey to conformity’s opposite extreme—egoism. This thesis proposes a relational conception of authenticity that can help prevent the often destructive excess of egoism while also offsetting the undesirable deficiency of heteronomy, concertedly moving agents towards socially responsible living. It demonstrates how authenticity necessarily has ethical dimensions when rooted in existentialist and dialogical frameworks. It also defines egoism as a form of self-deception rooted in flawed logic that cannot be considered “authentic” by relational standards. Relational authenticity recognizes the interpersonal relationships and social engagements that imbue meaning into agents’ lives, fostering a balance between personal ambitions and social obligations, and enabling more consistently moral lifestyles. Authenticity Egoism Ethics Moral Responsibility Individualism Jean-Paul Sartre Charles Taylor Charles Guignon
36	Pettit, Non-domination and Agency: A Taylorian Assessment McLaughlin, Adam Bernard January 2016 (has links) Philip Pettit claims his neorepublican theory of freedom as non-domination is preferable to the liberal ideal of non-interference, and he is right. But the reasons why he is right run deeper than is apparent if we attend solely to his arguments defending non-domination in negative terms. In fact, embedded in the three benefits that Pettit claims non-domination can offer (which non-interference cannot) lie significant resonances with a positive idea of freedom concerned with a person’s sense of agency. We find such an idea in Charles Taylor, where freedom as self-realization is intricately linked with his “significance view” of human agency. By adopting this Taylorian lens and assessing Pettit’s non-domination, I show that non-domination does have much to offer those of us who think of freedom primarily in positive terms and, more generally, to all those of us who believe that freedom and agency are inextricably linked and must be treated as such. Philip Pettit Charles Taylor Republicanism Non-domination Agency Positive Liberty Negative Liberty
37	Gathered Worship and the Immanent Frame: Misinterpreting and Reinterpreting God's Presence in Worship Hill, Jesse 11 1900 (has links) Christian theology (whether biblical or liturgical) generally affirms that God is somehow present in the setting of gathered worship. However, it is often the case that many worshippers themselves (and even ministers) might not perceive that God is present to the church in any discernible way, leading to worship practices that may functionally ignore God's presence, or that may attempt to conjure up some feeling that something transcendent is happening in worship. This thesis attempts to use Charles Taylor's concept of 'the immanent frame' to explain why believers and unbelievers alike might misinterpret worship. In doing so, this thesis applies Taylor's phenomenological methodology to several casual, popular-level accounts relating to perception of God's presence or absence in worship, revealing that the imminent frame does indeed come to bear on the ways in which people understand and experience worship, and suggesting that practitioners must learn to reinterpret worship.
38	Toward A Collective Architecture Lund, Jon Michael 29 September 2017 (has links) No description available. Architecture Co-housing Co-working Collective Charles Taylor Jack London Square Community
39	Contesting Recognition: A Critique of Hegelian Theories of Recognitive Freedom Goure, Devin Russell 20 October 2010 (has links) No description available. Philosophy Political Science recognition freedom G.W.F. Hegel Theodor Adorno Charles Taylor
40	Conceptions of God and narratives of modernity : a hermeneutical interpretation of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age Guyver, Jennifer January 2009 (has links) Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. Charles Taylor A Secular Age Sécularité Sécularisation Narration Religion Foi moderne Identité Moralité Philosophie anthropologique Charles Taylor A Secular Age Secularity Secularization Religion Modern condition of belief Conception of god Narrative of modernity Identity Morality Philosophical anthropology

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