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Charles Taylor The Politics Of Recognition Summary
MacIntyre once wrote “Politics has become civil war carried on the others means.” These means consist of the deeper underlining cultural and philosophical issues in the modern day politics. Charles Taylor in his essay the The Politics of Recognition examines the inherited philosophical issues of the recognizing need of identity within the society. This issue of recognizing, finding, and defining one’s identity is impossible to do without the strong influence of the public sphere. As a society we cannot go without the judgment of express labeling from within the public.
Thus some feminists have argued that women in patriarchal societies have been induced to adopt a depreciatory image image of themselves. They have internalized a picture of their own inferiority, so that even when some of the objective obstacles to their advancement fall away, they may be incapable of taking advantage of the new opportunities. And beyond this, they are condemned to suffer the pain low self-esteem.
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Thus, creating a civil war between publicly defined rival ideologies, which can be reflected in the “politics of equal recognition, which has taken various forms over the years, and has now returned in the form of demands of equal status of cultures and of genders.” Furthermore, this can be seen within the public arena of politics creating a society of self label policies. This recognizing of political identity (whether that be republican or democratic) has hand the issues upon gay marriage, women in the work place, or the most recent one the transgender bathroom policy that were passed in North

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