Hegel Charles Taylor Portable

Taylor borrows this narrative structure but secularizes the content. He tells the story of how Western civilization moved from a "porous self" (open to enchantment, spirits, God) to a "buffered self" (closed off, disengaged, master of its own mind).

Instead, Taylor presents Hegel’s vision of freedom as "being at home with oneself in the other." This is a positive, substantive freedom. It is the state where an individual’s desires and rational will align with the community and institutions in which they live. Taylor explains that Hegel saw the French Revolution as a tragedy of negative liberty—an explosion of freedom that destroyed all institutions but failed to create a stable home for the individual, resulting in the Terror. Hegel Charles Taylor

Nowhere is Taylor’s Hegelian skeleton more visible than in his magnum opus, A Secular Age (2007). This is a narrative history of belief, and narrative is the engine of Hegelian Geist . Taylor borrows this narrative structure but secularizes the