scholarly journals Aksjologiczna nieprzejrzystość. O silnych wartościowaniach w dziennikach pisarzy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Robert Piłat
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Strong Evaluation ◽  
Literary Journals ◽  
Self Knowledge

Rozważam pytanie, czy dzienniki pisarzy ujawniają silne wartościowania w sensie zaproponowanym przez Charlesa Taylora. Wartościowania te są, według tego filozofa, najlepszymi aksjologicznymi wyjaśnieniami własnych preferencji działania, jakie dana osoba potrafi sformułować i przedstawić jako racje swoich preferencji. Ta aksjologiczna świadomość jest nietrywialnym wewnętrznym wyborem spośród wielu możliwych wyjaśnień – samointerpretacją nakierowaną na odsłonięcie źródła dobroci tych wartości, które dana osoba uznaje. Poszukuję śladów tej świadomości w wybranych dziennikach pisarzy. Moje wnioski są sceptyczne. Dzienniki poddają wprawdzie tropy kierujące ku silnie wartościowanym dobrom, lecz tropy te okazują się zbyt chaotyczne i niezdecydowane. Trzeba przyznać rację Davidowi Parkerowi, który poszukiwał fundamentalnej aksjologicznej świadomości raczej w autobiografiach. Tylko zdystansowana refleksja daje szansę na ujawnienie silnych wartościowań. Jest tak pomimo licznych aporii związanych z samowiedzą. Axiological Opacity: On Strong Evaluations in Literary Journals In the present article, I discuss the issue of whether writers’ diaries reveal strong evaluations of their authors. Following Charles Taylor, I understand strong evaluation as the best axiological explanation which a given person is able to formulate and present as the reason for his or her preferences. This axiological awareness is a non-trivial internal choice made from among many possible explanations – it is a self-interpretation aimed at showing the source of the goodness instantiated by the person’s values. In the article, I look for evidence of such awareness in several well-known writers’ diaries. My conclusions are skeptical. Although the journals provide some clues in the search for strong evaluations, they are too chaotic and inconclusive. David Parker believes it more promising to look for fundamental axiological awareness in autobiographies instead. I find his approach correct; distanced reflection seems to be the only chance to reveal strong evaluations. This is despite the aporias involved in self-knowledge.

Problems for the Agency Model of Self-Knowledge

Dialogue ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-554
Author(s):  
Anthony Brueckner
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Agency Model ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Connaissance De Soi

RÉSUMÉDans un article récent, Victoria McGeer a proposé une conception de la connaissance de soi, qui se présente comme une alternative au modèle durapporteur prédicteur selon lequel confesser des croyances consiste à rapporter des «états sous-jacents» de soi-même. McGeer met l'accent, à la place, sur une approche actantielle: la connaissance de soi, selon elle, est engendrée par les actions responsables que l'agent entreprend pour rendre vrais ses propres aveux quant à ses croyances. Le présent article est une discussion critique de cette conception de McGeer. Une première objection a rapport à l'explication du comportement, et une seconde concerne la tentative du modèle actantiel pour rendre compte du caractère d'autorité de la connaissance de soi.

The Clash of Paradigms: Taylor vs. Narveson on the Foundations of Ethics

Dialogue ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 771-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Beam
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Jan Narveson

RésuméCet article examine les différences entre deuxparadigmes dominants en éthique: 1) la théorie du contrat, qui est fondationnelle et anhistorique, et 2) l'approche néo-aristotélicienne, qui s'enracine dans les phénomènes de l'expérience éthique ordinaire. Le premier paradigme est exemplifié par Jan Narveson, le second par Charles Taylor. Le présent article voudrait à la fois jeter quelque lumière sur ces divergences théoriques et soutenir l'approche de Taylor contre les tenants de la théorie du contrat. Je tiens que les theories procédurales du juste dependent en réalite d'une conception sous-jacente du bien; que nous ne devrions pas accepter une éthique des libertés (ni aucune autre éthique) sur la seule base d'un argument contractualiste abstrait; et que la théorie du contrat est incapable de mettre en lumière les veritables sources morales de l'éthique des libertés.

scholarly journals Du mépris à la dignité : Bakhita de Véronique Olmi

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-264
Author(s):  
Anna Żurawska
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Charles Taylor

Le roman de Véronique Olmi, Bakhita (2017) retrace l’histoire de sainte Joséphine Bakhita en démontrant le processus qui va du mépris, de l’humiliation, de l’animalisation à l’acquisition de la dignité, voire à la sainteté. Le texte met l’accent non pas sur la dégradation des sentiments et de l’être humain, mais il montre comment dépasser les limites imposées par le mépris des autres et atteindre la plénitude. L’objectif du présent article sera, dans un premier temps, d’étudier des manifestations du mépris et des moyens littéraires qui permettent de l’exprimer. Dans un deuxième temps, l’analyse se centrera sur le processus qui va du mépris vers la plénitude, dans l’acception que lui donne Charles Taylor. Enfin, il sera aussi intéressant de poser la question sur les raisons du succès de ce roman « hagiographique » en France laïque.

Only Connect: The Place of Self-Knowledge in Ethics

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 308-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Mullett
Keyword(s):  
Moral Agency ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Human Love ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Caring Relations

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.(E.M.Forster)How important is self-knowledge in moral life? What kind of self-knowledge, if any, is necessary for full moral agency? What kinds of self-knowledge are there? What is ‘full moral agency’? Despite the great proliferation of theories about the self in psychology in this century, questions like these have not been addressed very often in recent literature on ethics in the Anglo-American tradition. And, although in 1958 Anscombe recommended that we stop doing moral philosophy altogether until we have a better moral psychology, the main response to this suggestion has been a renewed interest in the virtues. Another approach to these problems can be found in feminist ethics, with its interest in caring relations. In this paper I shall describe a few of the connections between caring and self-knowledge. I shall then compare the insights generated by this approach with the views of two authors, who work from radically opposed frameworks, Richard Brandt and Charles Taylor. Both have produced interesting, but completely different descriptions of self-knowledge and its place in moral life.

scholarly journals Employer branding – a dialogistic communication tool of a competitive employer

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lubecka
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Employer Branding ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract The present article aims at discussing the value of employer branding, a relatively recent phenomenon in the field of company communication practices, which can be treated as an attempt to develop a dialogistic type of relationships between company employers and employees. The former use this communication strategy to attract quality workers and to retain the currently employed. For the latter it is the means to evaluate their employer by means of all kinds of suggestions, innovative remarks as well as comments, both positive and negative impacting the employer’s image and reputation. As such employer branding may be treated as an important source of information for the employer about their management strengths and weakness, especially as far as their Public Relations (PR) practices are concerned. The author of the present article argues that employer branding can contribute significantly to the employer self-knowledge and verify their self-perception as well as serve to improve the image the company aims at creating only if the employer-employees communication becomes a dialogue. It implies that the communication between them must be founded on humanistic values which means that both parties treat each other with due respect, the information provided by the employees is neither manipulated nor distorted, and the employer acts as an active listener

scholarly journals The body in museology as expression of identity in contemporary thought

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-187
Author(s):  
Sara Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Knowledge

In the present article we seek to reflect, within the scope of an PhD investigation in ULHT, Sociomuseology department, about tattoo as an artistic expression for cotemporary museology, where we try to give visibility to a process of identity, to a mapping of experiences and of affirmation of a territory that belongs to each one of us – our body. If on one hand, we seek to answer to one of the problems that we consider important in the today’s world, we also seek to reflect about some issues that concern the Museology and the Museums. Throughout this investigation we also seek, through fieldwork expressed by interviews with the tattooed, to highlight the importance of the subject, in the museological processes, through self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-criticism, in which the subject is at the same time a museological object, considered as a work of art. Then the tattooed subject then shares many of the problems that are also common to the Sociomuseological universe: he is the subject and object of memory and forgetfulness - mapping his territory; he is also a subject of power, of his body; it is a point of heritage identification through its aesthetics; it is the search for an identity or a difference in its territory, and it is the result of the phenomenological processes of modernity. These are just some of the points that will be discussed in this text. Key words: Sociomuseology; Identity; Power; Artistic Expression; Postmodernity

scholarly journals Privacy and the Communitarian Self

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Benjamin Moore
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
The Self ◽  
Informational Privacy ◽  
Liberal Conception ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
Michael Sandel

<p>Contemporary philosophical debates about privacy turn on important questions regarding selfhood. Minimally, someone who endorses the possibility of informational privacy is committed to the idea that there are ‘selves’ or ‘persons,’ and that it is possible to decide what information relates to them and how. I argue that most popular accounts of privacy rely on a liberal conception of the self. In the Kantian tradition, persons are characterised as ‘transcendental subjects,’ always partly prior to, and unencumbered by, their particular circumstances. Communitarians argue, however, that the liberal notion of the self offers only a partial account of personhood. It is not possible to reason as a transcendental subject because, in various ways, our sense of self is defined by circumstance. Our connections to various communities – such as a family, religion, or state – as well as the shared representations and meanings we rely on to gain self-knowledge, are indispensable parts of what it is be a person. Drawing on the work of Michael Sandel, Charles Taylor, and Alisdair MacIntyre, I argue that to properly account for our want of privacy and its moral significance, we must look to the complex relationships between a person, their personal information, and the communities they inhabit.</p>

scholarly journals MODERNIDADE INVIÁVEL...? A PERTINÊNCIA TEOLÓGICA DAS “MODERNIDADES ALTERNATIVAS”: LENDO CHARLES TAYLOR

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Eugenio Rivas ◽  
Luiz Carlos Sureki
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Alternative Modernities ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Subject

RESUMO: O presente artigo pretende ser uma contribuição à discussão atual em torno da problemática da modernidade. Como o título sugere, ele tem um caráter reticente e interrogativo. Reticente porque a própria compreensão de modernidade, pela via das tentativas recentes de se chegar a uma distinção precisa entre moder­nidade e “pós-modernidade”, não encontra consenso entre os autores. Interrogante porque não nos parece que a modernidade ocidental seja única e uniformemente universalizável, como sugerem várias abordagens atuais. E assim nos aproximamos das “modernidades alternativas” de Charles Taylor, dos limites daquelas aborda­gens que ele chamou de aculturais, e dos perigos das mono-narrativas, mantendo, contudo, a pergunta pela pertinência teológica da proposta tayloriana.ABSTRACT: The present article aims at being a contribution to ongoing discus­sion around the subject of Modernity. As the title suggests, it has a reluctant and interrogative character. Reluctant because of the very understanding of Modernity, through recent attempts to arrive at a precise distinction between Modernity and post-Modernity, does not find a consensus among scholars. Interrogative because it does not seem to us that western Modernity is unique and uniformly universalizable, as suggested by various recent advances. With this in mind, we explore Charles Taylor’s “alternative modernities”, the limits of those approaches that he himself calls acultural and the dangers of Mono-narrative, maintaining, nevertheless, the question of the theological pertinence in the Taylorian proposition.

scholarly journals San Agustín: interioridad, reflexividad y certeza

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Agustín UÑA JUÁREZ
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
De Trinitate ◽  
Methodological Question ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Mind

The present article researches into two main problems in St. Augustine's well known arguments of certainty, against the sceptics. Really, both problems are two different sides or levels of the same "methodological" question: the interiority of the knowledge (and the truth), and the reflection of the mind, as a way of certainty. A main conclusion of the present study is that both sides are correlative: reflection presupposes interiority, and interiority demands reflection, as a way of certainty. But, what is reflection for Augustine? The last part of this paper examines the Augustinian doctrine of reflection, in the context of his «philosophy of the mind». At this point, the present enquiry tries to show that our thinker supposes along his works (specially in De Trinitate and in Cmzfessiones) three main kinds of reflection, according to three different modes of self-knowledge of the human mind: "llotitialis", "cogitativa", and "phenomenological".

Fellow travellers on different paths: A conversation with Charles Taylor

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 985-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel Meijer ◽  
Charles Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Kantian Constructivism ◽  
Strong Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship

This interview with Charles Taylor explores a central concern throughout his work, namely, his concern to ‘reenchant’ self and world through a careful examination of value as emanating from the world rather than from ourselves. It focuses especially on the status of his central doctrine of ‘strong evaluation’ against the background of mainstream meta-ethical theories, such as neo-Kantian constructivism and robust realist non-naturalism. Additionally, the relationship between Taylor’s theism and his moral–political philosophy is discussed. A key issue that is examined is what ontological background picture can make sense of the strong evaluative experience of higher worth. Some other related issues that are explored revolve around Taylor’s papers ‘Disenchantment-Reenchantment’ and ‘Recovering the Sacred’, which tentatively explore the meaning of reenchantment.

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