At the end of Sources of the Self (1990), Charles Taylor argues that the modern West lacks the moral resources it needs to realize its own ideals of universal justice and benevolence. And so, in pursuit of those ideals, it often violates them. He called the latter the “dilemma of mutilation.” Redeeming the Enlightenment is Bruce Ward’s philosophical-theological reflection (...)
November 30, 1999
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A Three-cornered Struggle
Redeeming the EnlightenmentChristianity and the Liberal VirtuesBruce K. WardEerdmans, $26, 264 pp.
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