The Malaise of Modernity

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00:00 Intro 03:21 Lecture 1 47:50 Lecture 2 1:36:04 Lecture 3 2:23:51 Lecture 4 3:12:55 Lecture 5

[@rodrigosilveira2525]

Thank you!

[@languagegame410]

i keep coming back to this lecture series every six months or so... i think this is a very important thing, in my far from humble opinion... o, how i opine!!!

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[@atmnurulamin1840]

So distinctly clear and profoundly significant.

[@Mark-zr8nr]

Extremely grateful for this. Thank you

[@Hans-tr6dx]

The Keith Woods gang has visited you. Thank you for the great audio book and have a nice day.

[@ppss.6302]

No matter how many talks you listen to you can't do a squat about anything other than becoming a recluse because you don't want to run with the herd.

[@wildeirishpoet]

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[@vladimirsolovyov666]

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[@DorothyPotterSnyder]

Marvelous presentation.

[@patrickhuser4755]

A great thinker!

[@kaminsrocks]

Massey Lectures... a treasure of ideas.

[@flyingteeshirts]

Excellent talk on one hand. Very accessible. It's unfortunate he doesn't articulate his critique of Derrida or Foucault further than, 'they're highly complex philosophy can become banalized as relativism'. Terrible critique from such an esteemed scholar because it could be said of any philosopher that when their philosophy is dumbed down, simplified, taken out of their original form that they can be used to support bad positions. Aside, he's clearly interpreting Derrida's deconstruction as primarily negative and not as the translation as term that developed during Derrida's reading of Husserl and Heidegger. Taylor also fails to see how Foucault's project and his own philosophical anthropology are quite similar. Foucault is all about understanding subject formation, how subjects are conditioned, formed, and controled by regimes of power and how different regimes of power require and form different modes of subjectivity. It's not relativistic at all because Foucault has a clear notion of a freedom and what a good human life would be, or what might lead towards the formation of a good life. Just so unfortunate to hear him repeat such drivel. It's a fly in an otherwise lovely ointment. Anyone interested in a lecture on Foucault and Derrida from the same time period should search for Rick Roderick on them.

[@flyingteeshirts]

I am also highly suspicious of his talk of 'deviant forms of authenticity' and deviance as such. And, I think he does a lot of work to shirk our society's responsibility for the generation of these 'deviant forms'. They are mistakes, errors, irrational conclusions from valid premises, anything but real existing results from the source he so wishes to preserve. Unfortunately, the root itself is likely rotten and the whole project of grounding ourselves on any roots at all maybe highly problematic and futile. Authenticity is a highly suspect term and for good reason. However, the sense of a need for a root, even a prosthetic root, is an incredibly pressing matter that calls for thinking, but perhaps with a little more suspicion than Taylor is willing to proceed with

[@neilfilby]

Oooh get you 😂

[@michaeljensen4650]

@@flyingteeshirts Capitalistic Societies which place profit above community and human life produce ruthless individualism and feelings of powerlessness and apathy. Taylor claims it is not the lack of objective moral standards but the modern liberal ethos which is the sole force eroding our sense of community, creating atomism and narcissistic individuals. This is an old argument which was used by the church hundreds of years ago. Taylor's presentation is merely a clever diversion using a secular form of an old lie. He is appealing to vain intellectuals who believe they can change our world for the better with humanistic values alone. This is a narrow and simplistic view. Winning the hearts and minds of people will not be enough to right the course of our society. This outlook places the burden of change on the individual while deliberately ignoring major structural issues within the modern world. Regardless of the personal choices the common person makes in their life it will have little impact on the political, economic and legal direction of our government. The uncomfortable truth Taylor deliberately ignores; the Institutions which make up our society have lost their moral authority. They rule through violence, fear, greed and deception. The belief that they govern with our tacit consent because of our lack of participation is a lie. Does our vote really count. How functional is our democracy. Do we really have a voice. Our government has become the ruling arm of rapacious corporations. The individual has nowhere to turn so he is forced to look to himself since he has no allies and no one he can trust. The society he lives in is only concerned with harnessing his talent and labor. He has been objectified and reduced to nothing more than an economic unit. People are trapped by a system which seeks only to exploit them. They are forced to conform to this world or they are crushed. Conforming to such a world puts you at odds with your fellow citizen. That is the source of our anomie and social malaise not a lack of objective morality or a liberal ethos but the very form of our world itself.

[@commissarmethyst]

There are a lot of remarks to be made, but this is one of the important ones.

[@DorothyPotterSnyder]

Lucid and important presentation.

[@michaeljensen4650]

Capitalistic Societies which place profit above community and human life produce ruthless individualism and feelings of powerlessness and apathy. Taylor claims it is not the lack of objective moral standards but the modern liberal ethos which is the sole force eroding our sense of community, creating atomism and narcissistic individuals. This is an old argument which was used by the church hundreds of years ago. Taylor's presentation is merely a clever diversion using a secular form of an old lie. He is appealing to vain intellectuals who believe they can change our world for the better with humanistic values alone. This is a narrow and simplistic view. Winning the hearts and minds of people will not be enough to right the course of our society. This outlook places the burden of change on the individual while deliberately ignoring major structural issues within the modern world. Regardless of the personal choices the common person makes in their life it will have little impact on the political, economic and legal direction of our government. The uncomfortable truth Taylor deliberately ignores; the Institutions which make up our society have lost their moral authority. They rule through violence, fear, greed and deception. The belief that they govern with our tacit consent because of our lack of participation is a lie. Does our vote really count. How functional is our democracy. Do we really have a voice. Our government has become the ruling arm of rapacious corporations. The individual has nowhere to turn so he is forced to look to himself since he has no allies and no one he can trust. The society he lives in is only concerned with harnessing his talent and labor. He has been objectified and reduced to nothing more than an economic unit. People are trapped by a system which seeks only to exploit them. They are forced to conform to this world or they are crushed. Conforming to such a world puts you at odds with your fellow citizen. That is the source of our anomie and social malaise not a lack of objective morality or a liberal ethos but the very form of our world itself.

[@MichaelYoder1961]

"Here's to the ladies who lunch (everybody laugh), Lounging in their kaftans and planning a brunch, on their own behalf..." Stephen Sondheim, Company

[@mihailamarcel5201]

this man looks like an famous painting of Sorolla ..el Pescador

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

Great stuff

[@marlie4872]

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[@languagegame410]

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[@ian-z6k1x]

Not sure what kind but a flawlessly sterile, content-free word salad such as this must be some sort of a record. Waiting on the musical with all consuming anticipation.

[@dramatispersonae1315]

Why do you think this is a “word salad”?

[@garethinkster]

Let's hear a thoughtful counter-argument.

[@Arjmm]

The irony of using jargon filled world salad to critique the lecture instead of offering ant counter-arguments. Lol.