PHL 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Reasonable Accommodation, Michael Walzer
30 Jan 2015
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Taylor argues that this question is unintelligible without horizons of meaning and strong evaluations . There will be great diversity among individual selves; there is no one-size-fits-all conception of selfhood because each of us will imbue certain kinds of things with value that others will not. Your individuality makes certain things a significant part of the measure of your life"s success and failure, even though they would not be elements of the measure of success in every life. (appiah) But having a self at all requires access to a buffet of goods, a range of possibilities, a set of options out of which a self can be fashioned. We don"t just walk out of the jungle with a pre-social self already in hand! To form a self for ourselves, we need access to some cultural(normative) structure we need the appropriates materials for selfhood. These materials commitments, beliefs, stances, passions, etc -- are necessarily social/cultural.
