An Analysis Of Taylor's 'Moving Away From Here Again'

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With such a gloomy and helpless outlook on the world’s current situation with the rising of a shallow McWorld, that appears overwhelmingly impossible to change, where do we go from here? How do we move away from this anarchy and return to the ‘conscious and collective human control’? Here again, Taylor gives us hope. He argues that “we begin with seeing that the self is ‘socially guided and situated’. His communitarian view stresses that a person can only flourish and search for “the good” when in a certain type of culture or society that provides opportunities for such. These cultures provide a framework that promotes certain goods or values that are communicated through a common language. Taylor claims that one cannot be moral without knowing