Charles Taylor on Identity and Modernity

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Sign up for the Persuasion panel event in London: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-vs-harris-what-next-for-america-and-the-world-tickets-1026768591497 Yascha Mounk and Charles Taylor discuss the modern struggle for meaning and belonging. Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and Professor Emeritus at McGill University. Taylor is the recipient of both the Kyoto and Templeton prizes, and is the author of major works including A Secular Age and Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. His most recent book is Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Charles Taylor discuss how the modern notion of identity differs from that of the past; the role of religion and religious belonging in today’s societies; and the “post-liberal” critiques of liberalism, including the claim that it’s impossible to be truly religious or devout in a liberal democracy. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Does it mean that I can say the Holocaust was a good thing and appeal to people to go at that?
0:06.4	If you don't recognize that there are two considerations, then you're just blinding yourself
0:12.0	to the reality and you may give a reason that it powerful people
0:16.2	if there is such a thing as restricting speech powerful people will overdo it very
0:22.2	possible very possible But I mean this is just one of those very important
0:28.4	lines you have to draw with great care. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:39.0	For our British listeners, I'm excited to announce that persuasion is hosting an in-person panel event in London
0:44.8	which I will be speaking at. I will be joined by journalist Ian Dund in a
0:50.4	conversation moderated by the journalist and broadcaster Rashmi Lull and we're going to be talking about the American election.
0:56.7	Trying to make a prediction about who wins though I don't have any idea to be honest
1:01.3	clearing up some myths about the American electorate and of course
1:06.0	discussing the stakes, discussing what America will look like the day after the election
1:12.4	and over the course of the next four years.
1:15.4	All of this is on Tuesday, October 29th at 6.30 PM at the Seckford pub in Farringdon, that is SEK F-O-R-D-E, the Segford pub in Farrington.
1:27.6	Tickets are ten pounds or they're free for paying members.
1:31.5	The link to the event on Eventbright is in the show
1:35.8	description in the notes for this podcast. Alternatively you can also go to
1:41.9	persuasion. community slash p
1:46.6	slash events that's persuasion dot community
1:50.7	slash p like persuasion,
1:53.0	events.
1:54.4	I hope to see you in London.
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