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Full Idea
If you want to discriminate more finely what makes humans worthy of respect, you must call to mind the claim of human suffering, or what is repugnant about justice, or the awe you feel about human life.
Gist of Idea
To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe
Source
Charles Taylor (Sources of the Self [1989], §1.1)
Book Ref
Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.8
A Reaction
A persuasive part of the claim that such feelings are inseparable from thinking about people in any way at all.
| 4003 | Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined [Taylor,C] |
| 4005 | To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe [Taylor,C] |
| 4004 | Consistency presupposes intrinsic description [Taylor,C] |
| 4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
| 4009 | Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C] |
| 4010 | In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism [Taylor,C] |
| 4002 | My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C] |
| 4020 | The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment [Taylor,C] |
| 4021 | Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour [Taylor,C] |