Abbey, Ruth, ed. Charles Taylor.(Book Review)

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Abbey, Ruth, ed. Charles Taylor Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press 232 pp., $60.00 cloth, $19.99 paper ISBN 0-5218-0136-2 cloth ISBN 0-5218-0522-8 paper Publication Date: January 2004

Charles Taylor argues that we are embedded in our society and that a complex interplay of social, cultural, national, linguistic, philosophic, and religious beliefs shapes our identity. We also seek the good, and our principles aspire to transcend the social forces that form us. It is appropriate to apply these observations to the tolerant and conciliatory Canadian Taylor, who attempts to ...

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