Le fonti della libertà nel pensiero di Charles Taylor

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journal	RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA
section	Online First
title	Le fonti della libertà nel pensiero di Charles Taylor The Sources of Freedom in Charles Taylor’s Thought
author	Alessandra Gerolin
publisher	Vita e Pensiero
format	Article \| Pdf
online since	04-2020
doi	10.26350/001050_000185
issn	00356247 (print) \| 18277926 (digital)
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The aim of this essay consists in investigating the ‘sources’ of freedom in Charles Taylor’s philosophy. In particular, I consider his studies focused on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Isaiah Berlin and Michel Foucault, as Taylor develops his own view of freedom engaging a ‘dialogue’ with their philosophical perspectives. He rejects a view of ‘absolute’ freedom, which reflects a radical imposition of one’s will, independently from her/his conditions as natural and social being. Radical freedom interpreted as autonomy leads to believe that all options are equally worthy because it is choice that confers them worth. According to Taylor, however, the denial of meanings and purposes in human agency engenders a nihilist will of power. To face this situation, Taylor’s proposal consists, on one side, in ‘situating’ freedom and, on the other side, in formulating qualitative valuations to discern the most important purposes. keywords Charles Taylor, Freedom, Sittlichkeit, Modernity, Secularism Author biography Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. Email: alessandra.gerolin@unicatt.it Enter a comment for Le fonti della libertà nel pensiero di Charles Taylor

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The aim of this essay consists in investigating the ‘sources’ of freedom in Charles Taylor’s philosophy. In particular, I consider his studies focused on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Isaiah Berlin and Michel Foucault, as Taylor develops his own view of freedom engaging a ‘dialogue’ with their philosophical perspectives. He rejects a view of ‘absolute’ freedom, which reflects a radical imposition of one’s will, independently from her/his conditions as natural and social being. Radical freedom interpreted as autonomy leads to believe that all options are equally worthy because it is choice that confers them worth. According to Taylor, however, the denial of meanings and purposes in human agency engenders a nihilist will of power. To face this situation, Taylor’s proposal consists, on one side, in ‘situating’ freedom and, on the other side, in formulating qualitative valuations to discern the most important purposes.