An Exploration Of Cultural Modernity In Charles Taylor’s Secularization Theory

Through the analysis of secularization theory,Charles Taylor pointed out that cultural modernity and the chain of survival in the secular age had been seriously disembedded.And further stated that cultural modernity is the third form of modernity in the secular age after modernity and post-modernity.It has the most systematic and comprehensive perspective to analyze and diagnose modernity problems.Different from other non-cultural modernity,Charles Taylor’s theory of cultural modernity mainly focuses on revealing that the secular age is an unstable post-axial age.The balance between the former individual religions’ emphasis on the virtues of piety,obedience or attaining rational knowledge and the collective rituals of the whole society linked to the old universe was ended.Therefore,the cultural modernity of the secular age has encountered a comprehensive crisis caused by the great disembedding.Individuals face the major problem of lack of key meaning in modern identity,and the social moral order and modern social governance also lack the necessary overall significance and mutually beneficial order.In order to resolve the overall crisis of cultural modernity in the secular age,Charles Taylor’s theory of cultural modernity comprehensively traces back to the source of morality in the history of thought.By combining the key concept of the chain of existence,he constructed the internal framework of cultural modernity in the form of "constituted good" in the secular age by integrating the holistic significance and super good order of religions before the secular age in the divine order of the existence of the huge chain.Charles Taylor comprehensively promoted the return of good in modern identity,modern moral order and modern social governance,and systematically embedded the "common good" into the internal framework of cultural modernity.He first transformed the integral meaning and mutually beneficial order of religious divine order into the key integral meaning of cultural modernity in the secular era through the intrinsic humanism without seeking outside in the"disenchantment world".Then he transformed the original religious personal piety into the truthfulness ethics in the cultural modernity of the secular era.And based on this,he constructed the super goodness and mutually beneficial order and stable structure of cultural modernity and its chain of existence.In the perspective of Charles Taylor’s secularization theory,this paper fully explains Charles Taylor’s comprehensive study of cultural modernity.First of all,Charles Taylor took the common good as the internal norm of cultural modernity and its survival chain in the secular era in modern identity.Secondly,Charles Taylor,in his imagination of modern society,took the overall mutually beneficial order as the internal framework and stable structure of cultural modernity in the secular era.Then,charles taylor took the authenticity ethics as the internal initiative to resolve the crisis of cultural modernity.Finally,Charles Taylor expanded the goodness of authenticity into the overall significance and transcendental goodness order for civilized countries to realize civilization consciousness,so as to comprehensively resolve the crisis of cultural modernity in the secular era.Charles Taylor’s theory of cultural modernity,when comprehensively tracing the key significance of moral resources in the history of thought,attached great importance to the analysis around the big disembedding and social embeddedness of the chain of existence.On the one hand,in analyzing the big disembedding of cultural modernity and the chain of survival in the secular era,Charles Taylor comprehensively traced back the overall significance and transcendental goodness order of the chain of survival,and strictly evaluated the impact of the big disembedding of cultural modernity on the differentiation of secular society,as well as the lack of key significance and mutually beneficial order.On the other hand,when Charles Taylor analyzed the social embeddedness of cultural modernity in the secular era,he systematically embedded and penetrated the holistic significance and transcendental goodness order of the "intrinsic humanism without seeking outside" in the secular era into the modern self-identity,modern moral order and social governance,mainly through the constitutive goodness,so as to comprehensively regulate the internal framework of political,economic,philosophical and other cultural modernity fields,so as to resolve the crisis of cultural modernity.In the end,when Charles Taylor solved the crisis of cultural modernity in the secular era,he formed an internal framework of cultural modernity with overall significance and transcendental goodness order,and formed a super stable structure of the survival chain of modern nation-state.This paper comprehensively analyzes and comprehensively grasps the three progressive dimensions of Charles Taylor’s cultural modernity theory,which is conducive to the overall significance and transcendental goodness order(moral resources)provided by the religious divine order in the huge chain of existence,and the comprehensive internal framework of secular cultural modernity through the internalization of constructive good,so as to provide a comprehensive and broad perspective and internal norms for the study of cultural modernity in the secular era.This provides us with very important enlightenment and reference significance for further understanding the civilization consciousness of Chinese cultural modernity in the secular era and conducting modern religious governance.The writing logic of this paper.Firstly,according to Charles Taylor’s secularization theory,this paper analyzes,summarizes and sums up the central position of cultural modernity.Secondly,this paper will analyze the deconstruction of the huge chain of existence and the fragmentation of cultural modernity in the secular era according to the big disembedding process of cultural modernity in the secular era interpreted by Charles Taylor’s secularization theory,which is the essence of the crisis of cultural modernity.Next,based on the analysis of the essence of cultural modernity by Charles Taylor’s secularization theory,this paper will explain how Charles Taylor resolved the cultural modernity crisis of the"disenchantment world" in the secular era through the comprehensive return of good.Finally,based on the perspective and method enlightenment provided by Charles Taylor’s secularization theory to solve the crisis of cultural modernity by using the chain of existence,this paper will extend the thinking and interpretation of the problems left over by the realistic cultural modernity crisis faced by different civilized countries in the secular era;And think about how to further combine the "goodness of authenticity" to promote the civilized consciousness of cultural modernity in civilized countries.The construction of cultural modernity and the chain of existence in the secular era.In his secularization theory,Charles Taylor integrated and combed his lifelong philosophy and ideological system,and interpreted his theory of cultural modernity in the big disembedding of cultural modernity in the secular era.He believed that the internal framework of cultural modernity mainly included modern identity based on communitarianism,modern moral order based on the imagination of modern society,and modern social governance with authenticity ethics as the core to resolve the crisis of cultural modernity.On this basis,the significance of integrity and the order of transcendental goodness and mutual benefit can be embedded into the super stable structure of cultural modernity and its survival chain in the secular era.The essence of the crisis of cultural modernity.Because Charles Taylor regards the complete internal normative structure of the giant chain of existence as the origin of meaning and order,the normative source of meaning and order in the disenchantment world has turned into the intrinsic humanism without seeking outside.Therefore,it is necessary to take the overall significance and transcendental goodness and mutually beneficial order provided by the existence of giant chains and intrinsic humanism without seeking outside as the internal normative standard to evaluate the cultural modernity and its crisis in the big disembedding in the secular era.Then we will dig deeply into the problems in modern identity,modern moral order and modern social governance,so as to have a comprehensive insight into the essence of the crisis of cultural modernity.Resolving the crisis of cultural modernity.Charles Taylor’s theory of cultural modernity made a profound analysis of the disembedding and crisis of cultural modernity in the process of secularization by tracing back and sorting out the holistic significance and transcendental goodness order of the existence of giant chains in the history of thought.In order to resolve the crisis of cultural modernity in an all-round way,Charles Taylor believed that it’s necessary to fully restore the overall meaning of good and the order of transcendental goodness and mutual benefit in the cultural modernity of the secular age.Therefore,the "iron cage" composed of atomism and instrumental rationality can be broken only by comprehensively reviving the goodness of authenticity in modern identity,modern moral order and modern social governance,so as to comprehensively resolve the identity crisis,rational crisis and freedom crisis of cultural modernity in the "disenchantment world".The remaining problems of cultural modernity theory.Charles Taylor’s theory of cultural modernity comprehensively explained the crisis of cultural modernity in the secular age,which was mainly manifested in the identity crisis characterized by atomism,the rational crisis characterized by the overflow of instrumentalism,and the freedom crisis characterized by the loss of substantive freedom.When Charles Taylor wanted to resolve the crisis of cultural modernity through the comprehensive restoration of the true goodness,the crisis of cultural modernity had polarized into other remaining problems that were more difficult to solve,such as identity politics,cultural centralism and civilization conflict.In order to solve these problems left over by cultural modernity,Charles Taylor advocated that the western cultural modernity should build a modern identity of communitarianism in modern identity and get rid of social tears.In view of cultural centralism and civilization conflict,we should form the true ethics,and get rid of the narrow perspective of the supremacy of interests of cultural centralism and civilization conflict with the vision and internal framework of a holistic good and mutually beneficial order.So as to promote the modem nation state to realize moral consciousness,form a mutually beneficial order of mutual respect and service,and finally resolve the remaining problems of the western cultural modernity crisis in the secular age.The enlightenment of cultural modernity theory.Charles Taylor’s theory of cultural modernity enlightens us to find that the Chinese cultural modernity in the secular age is also in the background of big disembedding and the crisis of cultural modernity caused by it.We are also faced with the inherent worries of modernity and the dilemma of relativism caused by the intertwining of secularization and rational disenchantment.However,following the internal framework constructed by Charles Taylor’s secularization theory to solve the crisis of cultural modernity,this paper finds that Chinese cultural modernity has a certain historical continuity in the authentic ethics and modern identity of communitarianism when it solves the crisis of cultural modernity.Because the modernity of Chinese culture and its chain of existence have always followed the cultural tradition of communitarianism,and thus constructed modern cultural identity and modern moral order,and integrated it into modern social governance.This reveals that China,as a unified and multi-ethnic civilized country,its cultural modernity and the internal framework of its survival chain are more inclined to the important guidance and internal momentum of social governance in a holistic sense and a mutually beneficial order in terms of social culture and social system.As far as Chinese cultural modernity is concerned,whether it’s to comprehensively resolve the crisis of cultural modernity or to face the legacy of the crisis of cultural modernity,there is a more cohesive and integrated value culture orientation and response mechanism.So that the modernity of Chinese culture has more comparative advantages and potential of civilized consciousness.To sum up,this paper systematically studies and carefully combs the issues of cultural modernity in Charles Taylor’s secularization theory,comprehensively reveals the essence of cultural modernity,the origin and solution of cultural modernity crisis,and further ponders and summarizes the more far-reaching and extensive legacy of cultural modernity and its enlightenment on Chinese cultural modernity.Whether Chinese or Western cultural modernity,when facing and solving the identity crisis,rational crisis and freedom crisis of cultural modernity in secular age,it has its own characteristics in modern identity,modern moral order and modern social governance from the perspective of the overall significance of good and mutually beneficial order.In the process of Charles Taylor’s comprehensive analysis and interpretation of cultural modernity,we should not only pay attention to the crisis faced by western cultural modernity,but also be unavoidable;At the same time,it is necessary to make Chinese cultural modernity give full play to the advantage of the assistance of communitarian historical continuity to the internal framework of cultural modernity,and promote the civilization consciousness of Chinese cultural modernity with the ethics of authenticity.Therefore,the Chinese cultural modernity will have more integrated advantages and the ability to correct errors in real time,so as to resolve the crisis of cultural modernity at all levels.