An Investigation of Character and Virtue

An
  probe
 of
 Character
 and
 Virtue
 
 
 
 
 

 (Charles
 Taylors
 Theory
 defended
 in
  anguish
 of
 a
 robust
 challenge
 by
 Owen
 Flanagan)
 

1
 

An
 Investigation
 of
 Character
 and
 Virtue
 


 
 Taylors
 Thesis
 Outlined:
  One
 of
 the
  intimately
 striking
 and
 valuable
 features
 of
 Charles
 Taylors
 Moral
 thought
  is
 the
 emphasis
 he
 places
 on
 the
 value
 of
 articulating
 the
 moral
 visions
 that
  direct
 ones
 life.
 We
 may
  get
 by
 a
 tacitly
 accepted
 value
  dust
 -­?-­?
 never
 even
  feeling
 the
 need
 to
 say
 what
 that
  body
 is.
 But
 if
 we
 engage
 in
 the
 struggle
 to
  define
 for
 ourselves
 and
 for
 others
 the
  set
 we
 live
 by,
 we
 deepen
 our
  understanding
 of
 those
 moral
 values
 by
 laying
 bare
 their
 foundations.
 We
 also
  heighten
 our
 awareness
 of
 the
  complexity
 of
 moral
 life.




 (Ruth
 Abbey:
 Charles
  Taylor
 Princeton
 University
 Press,
 2000,
 pp.
 41-­47).
  Taylor
 who
 is
 best
 classed
 as
 a
 Moral
 Realist
 says
 that
 that
  there
 are
 both
  objective
 characteristics
 and
 interpretations
 concerning
 morality,
 that
 there
 is
 a
  moral
 world
 that
 is
 independent
 of,
 while
 intimately
 interwoven
 with,
 the
  egos
  interpretation
 and
 understanding
 of
 it.
 His
 analysis
 of
 morality
 is
 tightly
  interwoven
 with
 his
 analysis
 of
 the
 self:
 Taylor
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