PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Comparative Politics
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Taylor- to be a human is to be a being that is constantly engaged in self-interpretation. No matter how sophisticated or uneducated- humans by their very nature, by simply living are engaged in interpretations of themselves. Action- we understand an action when we see it as a response to the meaning of a situation. We run away if we interpret a situation as threatening or frightening. The roles we occupy- to live out those roles are to engage in interpretation. To be a professor for example, is to enact a certain kind of role that has implicit norms and expectations. This goes for all roles and expectations one may have. The norms and standards that are implicit in roles act as a bar for the self-interpretation of the individual. To be a friend, one both understands the norms and expectations of the role, and your interpretation of that role.
