Alessandra Gerolin

The aim of this essay consists in investigating the ‘sources’ of freedom in Charles Taylor’s philosophy. In particular, I consider his studies focused on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Isaiah Berlin and Michel Foucault, as Taylor develops his own view of freedom engaging a ‘dialogue’ with their philosophical perspectives. He rejects a view of ‘absolute’ freedom, which reflects a radical imposition of one’s will, independently from her/his conditions as natural and social being...

The aim of this article consists in analyzing Charles Taylor’s interpretation of Bernard Williams’ moral philosophy. It focuses in particular on Taylor’s volume Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1989), but it also considers Taylor’s essay on Williams A most peculiar institution (1995) and Williams’ reply to it...

This article is intended to be a first step within a long-term project dedicated to Charles Taylor’s volume Sources of the Self. The Making of the Modern Identity (1989). In particular I focus on the method adopted by Taylor in his studies concerning the making of the modern identity...

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