The Modern Moral Order
This work is a translation of the first chapter from Charles Taylor's book “Modern Social Imaginaries”. The author focuses on the hypothesis that we will be able to shed the light on both initial and contemporary contradictions in the understanding of modernity, if we take into account that mod...
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Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law
2022-09-01
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| description | This work is a translation of the first chapter from Charles Taylor's book “Modern Social Imaginaries”. The author focuses on the hypothesis that we will be able to shed the light on both initial and contemporary contradictions in the understanding of modernity, if we take into account that modernity is inextricably linked with a certain kind of social imaginary. Distinctions between multiple modernities should be as well understood in terms of social imaginaries involved. Central to Western modernity is a new conception of the social moral order. Initially formed in the minds of several influential intellectuals, this concept later started to shape social imagination of different social groups, and then of societies. Nowadays the modern moral order has become so self-evident to us that it is difficult to consider it as just one of the possible concepts. One of the results of this order dominating over other conceptions in our social imaginary was the emergence of certain social forms that characterize the essence of Western modernity: a market economy, the public sphere, self-government, etc. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1e490a044fb54f75bc342c912f5accbb2023-03-13T10:01:48ZengUral Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and LawАнтиномии2686-72062686-925X2022-09-01223264110.17506/26867206_2022_22_3_26The Modern Moral Order Charles Taylor0McGill University This work is a translation of the first chapter from Charles Taylor's book “Modern Social Imaginaries”. The author focuses on the hypothesis that we will be able to shed the light on both initial and contemporary contradictions in the understanding of modernity, if we take into account that modernity is inextricably linked with a certain kind of social imaginary. Distinctions between multiple modernities should be as well understood in terms of social imaginaries involved. Central to Western modernity is a new conception of the social moral order. Initially formed in the minds of several influential intellectuals, this concept later started to shape social imagination of different social groups, and then of societies. Nowadays the modern moral order has become so self-evident to us that it is difficult to consider it as just one of the possible concepts. One of the results of this order dominating over other conceptions in our social imaginary was the emergence of certain social forms that characterize the essence of Western modernity: a market economy, the public sphere, self-government, etc.http://yearbook.uran.ru/images/files/an5.pdfmodernity; social imaginary; moral order; the modern concept of the moral order; |
| spellingShingle | Charles Taylor The Modern Moral Order Антиномии modernity; social imaginary; moral order; the modern concept of the moral order; |
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| topic | modernity; social imaginary; moral order; the modern concept of the moral order; |
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