He is not just such a great writer and thinker but also a very impressive speaker.

Perhaps our greatest living philosopher, CT remains the focus of thought on what it means to be human. Thanx for putting this guy out there for us egg-heads to hear.

This is presented a few months before the release of Taylor's Sources of the Self and it is incredible to have documentation of this presentation and to reinsert ourselves in the moment just before this book was released. Sources of the Self is one of the most important and remarkable books of the late 20th century.

I am sure Professor Charles Taylor loved Clarise Lespector's expressive work.

More Charles Taylor

Thank you a lot for finding and posting this gem PO! 🍻

Thanks you so much for sharing this talk !

I actually had to check the internet to see whether this Canadian philosopher is related to James Taylor because their appearance is similar. Makes me sad to watch old lectures or videos in general because you check and you see how much people have aged. This guy is still alive though according to the internet.

Beautiful lecture :)

Excelente exposição. Um paradigma muito interessante e inovador.

What a legend! 😎

you're gonna KILL me with this Charles Taylor content consumption situation, Philosophy Overdose... giving me my just deserts, as it were... GIVE! ME! MORE!!!

The was/is an entertaining treatment of some of the most significant root metaphors in "the west": inner and outer. I especially enjoyed the instance where poetry and art are subjected to the inner/outer. It can be seen in spaces where characterization is louder than composition and structure becomes a whisper. As far as a possible source, I would think to look toward biological fluids as the foundation, such as blood, reproductive fluids and how they have been interpreted, as the foundational instigators of this metaphorical interpretive representation in ritual, art, death, and emotions.

Good grief, Charlie Brown! I think my head just exploded! Could i have a doughnut, please. 😊

What I'll be bringing to this lecture is the contemporary (but also ancient) notion of the "eclipse of the self." This means that our notion of "subjectivity" or "consciousness" is, as it were, on the surface. It is not the INNERMOST. With the help of great poetry, we seek "something" that is "beyond communication," in the ordinary sense of that term. We have to land in a place that is best described as the "mystical."

OMG! A house of cards built on a sand dune during a hurricane. I'll take another cocktail thank you.

Needed this.

At 36:03 - Does anyone know how to spell the term Montaigne gives to the forms one settles around?

He says, "here in the lower mainland", which means that the lecture was given in Vancouver.

Try reading Taylor and Foucault and Zahavi together

Any relation between Reflexivity of Charles Taylor and the one advocated by George Soros and the cage's mathematic formulation of Eric Weinstein, please?

I would never have wanted to know myself, that's all.

Taylor is very good at beating around the bush---

A very intelligent, thoughtful, and learned man. One question. How do we handle the end of life right now? I spent a lifetime asking the "profound questions," but it is the immediate question in front of us as to how we get out of here with the least amount of pain and suffering in the end that matters. Being a "thinker" in the end does not pay off because the world does not give one whit about your philosophy my friend.

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He's more prescient than Jordan Peterson but it is frighting that we do not face the fact that we do not have any more resources for 'lectures' & informal entertainment academia. Taylor is on the formal side of the spectrum of information and #SurveillanceGeneratedSearchEngines will create formality without depending on types or theatre that just wastes resources The trial of Julian Assange will end theater and the spectacle to invite organic chemistry 'philosophy' of space interstitial networks

I bet this guy can get girls

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0:38 *RUBBISH* The search for "what it means to be a human being" is not "peculiar to our time". Ffs, the Eastern mystics have been exploring "Who Am I" for quite a few thousand years. Jeezuz. Modern arogance knows no bounds. This has nothing to do with modernity. Some modern people ponder that, many don't. Same as over the whole of history. But it has become a new age neurosis due to American psychoanalysis.