From Modernity、Secularization To Chinese Modernity——the Statement Of Charles Taylor’s "A Secular Age"

Hegel is the founder of modernity on philosophy, the first one to define the conception of modernity as a consciousness of time, namely "new time". From Max, Webber to Habermas, the theory of modernity philosophy constructs the background of Taylor’s idea. In the book of <the source of self>, he made a famous reading from the development of the conception of subject. Taylor thinks:the most typical moral dilemma for modern people is the losing of the sense of meaning, we could see the self always admit, seek and identity something higher from the indication of this moral intuition. This is the source of moral, which is higher, self-identity and powerful as to self.Taylor defines the popular narratives of modernity as substraction, and criticize it is the consequence of modern social imaginaries. The change of the source of moral in the process of modernization leads to a new self, namely "buffered self", and then results in the crux of modernity, namely "the immanent frame". The revolution of religion causes the change of conditions of belief, and leads to the "exclusive humanism", which makes the change of secularization in western social. Fullness is the opening to transcendences; human flourish denies the existence of the transcendence in value. This tension constructs the tension between the humanism and religion.The first essence as to modern china is the frame work. The disruption of "Human-nature Relation" on tradition implicates the change of china’s secularization, and it is the sign of the wane of transcendence in axial period.