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ONTOLOGY OF THE SELF AS THE NEW LANGUAGE OF 21. C. MAN: THE KEY-CONCEPTS AND COGNITIVE CHALLENGES OF CHARLES TAYLOR’S EDUCATIONAL MORAL PHILOSOPHY

The author investigates the given theme at two levels: (1) conceptual presumptions and (2) moral ontology of self-being (the author’s term for the notion of authenticity). In our age the very authenticity concept has been mostly researched by Charles Taylor, worldly known contemporary Canadian theorist and thinker. Taylor holds a stand “people grasps their life in narrative” (Taylor, 1989). This story-telling principle, which is unavoidably related with authenticity understood as moral ideal of contemporary man is widely discussed in Taylor’s remarkable book written in the field of meta-moral theory (because it is based on metaethical concept of good) and named “Sources of the Self: the Making of the Modern Identity”. Considering epistemological roots of story-telling concept, it echoes the old Aristotelian axiom “that humans are naturally self-interpreting animals”. The selfinterpretation concept nowadays can be approached from varieties of the many-folded philosophical or non-philosophical conception rooted (1) either in positivistic (English empiricism or Hume’s sentimentalism, Darwin’s and Spencerian sociobiologism, ) or in metaphysically shaped views (a bunch of streams based in certain theology or in neo- Aristotelian ontology presented in Heideggerian works, and before Heidegger, in the old German classical subjectivist concept of authenticity). Herein the authenticity as a form of self- interpretation concept will be discussed on a base of what author defines as ontology of the self: yet uninvestigated language of the 21st-century man. This elaboration is part of the author’s long-term investigations in the field of Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Education.

Aristotle, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the secrecy of Mayas’s language system, Charles Taylor, Self-concept

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