The Liberal Ethics of Charles Taylor in the Political Context of Liberal Societies [Spanish]

Authors

  • Julián Elizondo Reyes Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
  • José Francisco Zárate Ortíz Universidad de Monterrey

Keywords:

liberalism, existential void, multiculturality, instrumental reason, malaise of modernity, ethics, politics

Abstract

This article presents a critical reflection on the liberal ethical proposal of Charles Taylor and its viability in the political context of current liberal societies. A liberal social and political configuration is understood as one in which greater liberties are promoted and defended in individual rights schemes together with the requirement of respect for those individual guarantees. However, the liberal political context although the most suitable in current societies, presents several ethical problems that Taylor has already identified as the malaise of modernity: excess of individualism, primacy of instrumental reason and fragmentation and polarization of the society. Faced with these challenges and conflicts arising from the liberalism itself, Taylor’s ethics is a possible alternative to understand and manage them from an ethical civility and the promotion of common goals.


Author Biography

José Francisco Zárate Ortíz, Universidad de Monterrey

Licenciatura en Medicina Veterinaria, Maestría en Educación para la Paz y Doctorado en Estudios Humanísticos. Especialista en ética. Profesor de Filosofía y Ética de la Escuela de Humanidades y Educación de la Universidad de Monterrey (México). Asesor tutor de tesis de investigación del programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Estudios Humanísticos del Tecnológico de Monterrey (profesor invitado). Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) de México.

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2019-05-28

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