Catholic 301: Charles Taylor

Schedule & Registration

Who Are We? How Did We Get Here?

The author of the major works Sources of the Self and A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has spent a lifetime tracing out the origins and consequences of life in the modern world. A trained scholar of Hegel with a special interest in the workings of human language, Taylor is a Roman Catholic whose works tend to focus on the realities of self-identity and culture. As a philosopher, Taylor is glad to engage with the social sciences and the study of history to give us as robust an account as possible of who we are and how we got here in the modern world.

While Sources of the Self and A Secular Age are works whose length and complexity makes them more difficult to engage, the shorter works of The Ethics of Authenticity and Modern Social Imaginaries give the reader a fine introduction to the mind and vision of Charles Taylor. If you want to get a better sense of who you are and where you come from, you’ll want to spend some time this summer with these two great books.

Summer Schedule

The Ethics of Authenticity

• July 13^th: Chapters 1-4

• July 20^th: Chapters 5-7

• July 27^th: Chapters 8-10

Modern Social Imaginaries

• August 3^rd: Chapters 1-3

• August 10^th: 4-6

• August 17^th: 7-9

• August 24^th: 10-14

Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Parish Center

Saturdays, 9:00-10:30am (Mass in the Lady Chapel at 8:15am)

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