tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post115386287149976480..comments2024-01-08T11:08:42.530-05:00Comments on in-fraction: a quick meditation on free willtchittomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11511673.post-1155398162872372322006-08-12T11:56:00.000-04:002006-08-12T11:56:00.000-04:00"In a flattened world, where the horizons of meani..."In a flattened world, where the horizons of meaning become fainter, the ideal of self-determining freedom comes to exercise a more powerful attraction. It seems that significance can be conferred by <I>choice</I>, by making my life an exercise in freedom, even when all other sources fail. Self-determining freedom is in part hte default solution of the culture of authenticity, while at the same time t is its bane, since it further intensifies anthropocentrism. This sets up a vicious circle that heads us towards a point where our major remaining value is choice itself. But this, as we saw above, deeply subverts both the ideal of authenticity and the associated ethic of recognizing difference." Charles Taylor. <I>The Milieu of Modernity</I> (Concord, Ontario: House of Anansi Press Ltd., 1991), 69.tchittomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603445266088083067noreply@blogger.com