Converging roads around dilemmas of modernity

Charles Taylor

pp. 15-26

in: Charles W. Lowney (ed), Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the critique of modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

Charles Taylor describes three different strands of philosophy—those of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Polanyi—that come together to challenge the assumptions of Modern philosophy that have persisted since the time of Descartes. He shows how these routes converge to provide an alternative understanding of epistemology. Taylor also shows how Polanyi's notion of personal knowledge provides a way around a dichotomy in ethics that was forged by Modern philosophy: the forced choice of grounds in either Humean sentiment theory or in Kantian deontology.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin

Kant Immanuel

Descartes René

Wittgenstein Ludwig

Taylor Charles