Charles Taylor - The Future of the Secular 1-9

Location:
The New School
New York, NY
Event Date:
03.05.09
Speakers:
Charles Taylor

Summary
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University treats the term "secular" with several different meanings which, for a variety of reasons can't be simply ironed out and reduced to one, hence the inevitability of confusions and cross-purposes.

01. Introduction
02. How the Word 'Secular' Became Polysemous
03. Secular a Negative Reference to Religion
04. Religious Versus Secular
05. De-Centering Attention from Religion
06. French Laicite
07. Why There's Resistance: Mistakes, Fetishization of Historical Formulae
08. Democratic Society Reliant on Common Reference Points
09. Fetishization of Laicite
10. Diversity is Our Issue
11. Q
12. Questions Round 1
Profile 13. Canonical Justification for Democracy
14. Questions Round 2
15. Hard to Convince People that Democracy is Important Enough
16. Questions Round 3
17. Freedom of Conscience, Versus Freedom of Religion
18. Questions Round 4
19. Pluralism in Europe, Fetishization
20. Questions Round 5
21. Religion Before Democracy

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Charles Taylor
• Philosophy
• McGill University
• secular
• Religion
• French Laicite
• Resistance
• History
• Democratic Society
• democracy
• Laicism
• Diversity
• Freedom of Conscience
• Freedom of Religion
• Atheism
• Disbelief
• belief
• reason
• Science
• Knowledge
• Truth
• Faith
• Education
• research