Autenticidade e reconhecimento em Charles Taylor

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the possible answers provided by the ideal of authenticity coupled with the recognition of cultural authenticity in the thought of Charles Taylor. From a literature search, using the method of analytical approach, we articulate this dissertation work entitled Authenticity and recognition in Charles Taylor, on three times: i) the culture of the authenticity, ii) the ideal of authenticity and iii) recognition. By culture of authenticity we understand contemporary culture as responsible for the deviation from the ideal of authenticity, thus generating three malaises, namely modern individualism, the primacy of instrumental reason and political atomism. It is thus to present Taylor with the moral ideal that underlies modernity, i.e. the ideal of authenticity. This allows each individual to find and express a unique way of being within a community of meaning, that is, considering all the demands that go beyond the self. Bearing in mind that the human being can only express their identity in dialogue with other identities, or even in conflict with each other, so we present the concept of recognition linked to the search for authenticity because the individual may only be with the other and therefore recognized by the other, this is, there is no authenticity without acknowledgment. Therefore, the ideal of authenticity, according to Taylor, need to go through a recovery process that rescue its meaning and thus can contribute to today's reality.