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What's wrong with hypergoods

Université de Montréal, Canada

Charles Taylor defines `hypergoods' as the fundamental, architechtonic goods that serve as the basis of our moral frameworks. He also believes that, in principle, we can use reason to reconcile the conflicts that hypergoods engender. This belief, however, relies upon a misindentification of hypergoods as goods rather than as works of art, an error which is itself a result of an overly adversarial conception of practical reason. For Taylor fails to distinguish enough between ethical conflicts and those relating to the religio-aesthetic domain. A proper identification of hypergoods as aesthetic, moreover, requires us to revise his accounts of ordinary life, of evil and of the controversy over university curricula.

Key Words: aesthetics • ethics • evil • hypergoods • ordinary life • practical reason • religion • Charles Taylor • university curricula

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 33, No. 7, 802-832 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0191453707081676


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