Philosophical Arguments by Charles Margrave Taylor

A collection of interconnected essays arguing against the liberal notion of the isolated, self-sufficient individual and defending a historically informed, language- and culture-embedded account of human agency and moral reasoning; it develops a hermeneutic social philosophy that examines how social imaginaries, practices, and language shape identity, moral sources, secularization, and public reasons, critiques value-neutral technical frameworks, and insists that politics must attend to communal goods, moral frameworks, and the conditions for authentic human flourishing.