Review article

https://doi.org/10.21464/fi40206

The Notion of Human Being as a Socially Constructed Self in Taylor’s Theory of Morality

Hasnija Ilazi orcid.org/0000-0001-9514-0441 ; Universiteti i Prishtinës »Hasan Prishtina«, Fakulteti Filozofik, Rr. Eqrem Qabej, nr. 21, XK–10000 Prishtinë
Ardian Gola ; Universiteti i Prishtinës »Hasan Prishtina«, Fakulteti Filozofik, Rr. Eqrem Qabej, nr. 21, XK–10000 Prishtinë

Abstract

Understanding the notion of human being in Taylor’s theory of modern society includes the understanding of external components that define it – a moral framework and a social community – and the understanding of internal components – the capacities, mainly the component of the strong evaluation, that enable it to be oriented towards the highest values. A human being understood as a self, a person, a subject, an identity, overshadows, however, their multidimensionality through the exclusivity of the dimension of moral good as the main reference to their self-evaluation. The paper elaborates Taylor’s moral ontology, the relationship between the self and the good, and the foundation for the creation a modern identity as the synonym for a modern human being in their positioning related to the highest moral values.

Keywords

Charles Taylor; human being; modern society; moral good; self; identity; strong evaluation

Hrčak ID:

245089

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/245089

Publication date:

17.8.2020.

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