
Loving your Neighbor in a Secular Age
Agape in the Philosophy of Charles Taylor- Autor:innen:
- Verlag:
- 2026
Zusammenfassung
Die Solidarität mit denjenigen, die am meisten leiden, gehört zu den Grundwerten des Westens, doch es wird immer schwieriger, eine solide Grundlage für Altruismus zu schaffen. Diese Arbeit untersucht Agape, die christliche Nächstenliebe, als Motivationsquelle für Altruismus in einer pluralistischen und säkularen Gesellschaft. Dafür wird auf Charles Taylor zurückgegriffen und ein Großteil seines Werks nachgezeichnet. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei seiner Theorie des moralischen Realismus, seiner historischen Darstellung der Säkularisierung und der Politik der Anerkennung. Das Werk ist somit eine Erkundung der Rolle der Religion im öffentlichen Raum und eine originelle Einführung in die Gedanken des kanadischen Philosophen. Dieser Titel erscheint auch Open Access.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Auflage
- 1/2026
- Copyrightjahr
- 2026
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-495-99121-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-495-99122-0
- Verlag
- Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
- Reihe
- Religion in Public Life. Studies in Political Theology and Political Philosophy
- Band
- 1
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 398
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1.1. The meaning of agape
- 1.2.1. Incarnational love or dialectical love?
- 1.2.2. Specific love or universal love?
- 1.2.3. What a theory of moral motivation grounded in agape must account for?
- 1.3. Taylor on altruism and the role of agape
- 1.4. Taylor and the “catholic attitude”
- 1.5. Outline of the study
- 2.1. Mapping Taylor’s moral realism
- 2.2.1. Strong evaluation and moral motivation
- 2.2.2. Incommensurable Goods and the Orientation of a Life
- 2.3. Is the articulation of agape qualitatively distinctive?
- 2.4. Enrique Dussel’s critique from the perspective of the alterity and liberation
- 3.1. First slippage: interiority
- 3.2. Second slippage: ordinary life
- 3.3. Third slippage: the utility of the good and the rationalization of agape
- 3.4. Fourth slippage: historical exceptionalism
- 3.5. Fifth slippage: expressivism
- 3.6. The fate of agape in the age of pluralism
- 4.1. Taylor’s theistic hunch at the end of Sources of the Self
- 4.2. Taylor’s Best Account (BA Principle)
- 4.3. The moral maps of Modernity
- 4.4. The Best Account for the sake of the weak?
- 4.5. Some critics against Taylor’s theistic argumentation
- 4.6. Is agape (just) a romantic inspiration?
- 4.7.1. Resonance and the Good Samaritan
- 4.7.2. Addressing two difficulties
- 4.8. The Good Samaritan in Charles Taylor’s account of agape
- 5.1. The Axial Religions
- 5.2. The novelty of Christian agape
- 5.3. Reform and the eclipse of agape
- 5.4. The Renaissance civility
- 5.5. Providential Deism
- 5.6. The expansion of exclusive humanism
- 5.7. The Nova Effect
- 5.8. Altruism in the 19th Century ‘Open Space’
- 5.9. The Age of Mobilization
- 5.10. The super-nova effect and the Age of Authenticity
- 5.11. Evaluating Taylor’s historical account
- 6.1.1. Evaluating Illich’s position
- 6.1.2. Corruption or Mutation?
- 6.1.3. Institutionalization as nomolatry
- 6.2.1. Moralität and Sittlichkeit in Taylor’s perspective
- 6.2.2. Civil society and the role of charitable institutions
- 6.3. The imaginary of solidarity and moral transformation
- 6.4. An argument in favor of the non-translatability of agape
- 6.5. The place of agape in social philosophy
- 7.1. Recognition and agape
- 7.2.1. The dialogical nature of identity
- 7.2.2. Inarticulation as a danger for recognition
- 7.3.3. The way out of the struggle: holistic liberalism and the articulation of collective goals
- 7.3.4. The fusion of horizons
- 7.3. The Good and the Right
- 7.4. Agape and the end of violence
- 7.5. The question of transcendence and politics
- 8.1.1. The eschatological perspective of agape
- 8.1.2. The ambiguity of Taylor’s concept of transcendence and the catholic attitude
- 8.2.1. Martha Nussbaum and the Mutilation of Transcendence
- 8.2.2. Friedrich Nietzsche and the lack of articulation of the good
- 8.2.3. Agape as a fuller account
- 8.3.1. On the significance of hermeneutic interpretations
- 8.3.2. On the admiration towards moral exemplars
- 8.3.3. On the use of subtler languages
- 9.1. Agape as a motivational source for loving the neighbor: Strengths and weaknesses
- 9.2. Evaluating the presence of agape in Taylor’s philosophy: Consistencies and ambivalences
- 9.3. Taylor and the catholic attitude: an integral and undamaged account of humanity
- 9.4. Taylor’s contribution to the debate on the motivation towards altruism and the reinforcement of the call to love one’s neighbor
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