Strong Evaluation Without Moral Sources —— On Charles Taylor's Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics

----- 没有道德来源的强烈评价：论查尔斯泰勒的哲学人类学和伦理

ISBN: 9783110204049 出版年：2008 页码：400 Laitinen, Arto De Gruyter

Charles Taylor (1931- ) is one of the leading living philosophers. This is the first extended study on the key notions of his views in philosophical anthropology and ethical theory. Firstly, Laitinen clarifies, qualifies and defends Taylor’s thesis that transcendental arguments show that personal understandings concerning ethical and other values (so called “strong evaluation”) is necessary, in different ways, for human agency, selfhood, identity and personhood. Secondly, Laitinen defends and develops in various ways Taylor’s value realism. Finally, the book criticizes Taylor’s view that it is necessary to identify and locate a constitutive source of value, such as God, Nature or Human Reason. Taylor relies heavily on this claim in his accounts of moral life, modern identity and, most recently, secularisation.