Taylor and Vattimo on the Place of Culture in Political Practical Reasoning

• Authors: Mauro Javier Saiz

Abstracts

EN

Philosophical hermeneutics has become an unavoidable reference in the field throughout the twentieth century but has seldom been extended to draw conclusions in the area of political theory. Two intellectuals that have contributed to such a project are Charles Taylor and Gianni Vattimo, although they exhibit some important differences in key aspects of this enterprise, both at the level of the conceptual premises and at that of the prescribed policies and objectives. Here I examine these thinkers’ notion of tradition – an essential feature of hermeneutical theories – its ontological underpinnings, and the place each of them assign to it in sociopolitical decision-making, especially in the context of multicultural societies. In the end, I argue for the superiority of Taylor’s model of understanding and employing tradition in current political and moral debates.

Keywords

EN

Taylor; Vattimo; hermeneutics; multiculturalism; practical reason

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 55-72

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Mauro Javier Saiz

• Instituto de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2023.0033

Biblioteka Nauki

26917633