Hi Ian Naturalism is part of the Enlightenment inheritance, limiting our outlook to it undermines the true riches of experience, an analysis of which gives us the MOQ in contrast to the limits of SOM. For the full Taylor analysis of Enlightenment that includes the SOM thing but also other philosophical and political and social aspects of the 'flatland' that Enlightenment at it's worst (its by no means all bad and with much of huge use) gives us, you need to read his 'Sources of the Self'. Of couse, naturalism is important and useful, I used to grind everything to its mill myself, but it can be very limiting I'd suggest.For me a matter of the greater value of those few writers/thinkers that can think beyond its limits. Dawkins being a classic of those that fail to. Taylor's Sources of the Self book is on google books by the way.
Also, how can naturalism handle the concept of 'the possible'? The possible has not yet appeared in nature. David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "ian glendinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Charles Taylor > Hi DM, > > Another one of those intellectuals that went from Oxford to devout > Catholicism, - I'll add him to my list - guess he wasn't old enough to > be an "Inkling" ? > > The interview is more interesting than the book review .... the latter > (or maybe the book being reviewed) seems to focus on "attacking" an > extreme "caricature" of naturalism, rather than naturalism itself, so > it's a style I find hard to accept ? > > I like his description of analytic philosophy as "dried-out" as long > ago as the 50's. Which piece(s) do you characterises as "problems with > our enlightenment inheritance" ? The fact he couldn't (doesn't) > understand Voltaire ? > > But interesting. > Regards > Ian > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:28 PM, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Interesting stuff about philosopher Charles Taylor, values, secularism, >> problems with our Enlightenment inheritance, >> in Prospect Magazine recently: >> >> http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?search_term=charles+taylor&id=10025 >> >> http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?search_term=charles+taylor&id=10030 >> >> regards >> David M >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
