Subtitle
An Improbable Journey
Document Type
Article
Department (Manual Entry)
Feinstein School of Education and Human Development
Abstract
Charles Taylor has made a remarkable attempt to recover the moral ideal of authenticity as opposed to the debased form of authenticity, that leads to individualism. He points at the dialogical nature of authenticity, and finally, in another work, justifies the need for recognition. I want to show that the middle part of this chain of argument, dialogicality, if properly understood, cannot lead us to recognition in the sense Taylor ascribes to the latter.
Citation
Sidorkin, A.M. “Authenticity-Dialogicality-Recognition: An Improbable Journey,” Philosophical Studies in Education (1997): 83-90.