Short (5-20 mins)
Philosophy
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Charles Taylor versus Allan Bloom on Relativism
Theologian
Charles Taylor
Duration
7.40
Uploaded to YouTube
30 July 2024
Added to Database
4 April 2026
YouTube description
Philosopher Charles Taylor's critique of Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind which alleged that American campuses had become bastions of relativism. This video was created by Prof Jason Blakely for pedagogical purposes from Charles Taylor's 1991 Massey Lectures, "The Malaise of Modernity" available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hoyHfKEnKA