[Craic] Saturday Craic 10:30 EDT Charles Taylor: "Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal --zoomlinkj

Allan Baker allan.baker7878 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 20:18:31 PST 2021 

Hello Art;

Sorry that I had to leave at 11:30 am today - and each Saturday. 
I have an exercise class with my partner that is scheduled for that time.

In response to your second point about polarization, Jonathan Haidt’s book “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion” may be helpful. Haidt has an interesting analysis of why people disagree, based on a matrix of six core “values”.  These are values that we share, but our emphasis is in different places. For example, for those of the “liberal moral matrix” the most sacred “value” is care for victims of oppression. For those of the “social conservative moral matrix” the most sacred value is “preserve the institutions and traditions that sustain a moral community”.

The book is interesting reading - but too much psychological content (reads like a textbook).

Stay hopeful;
Allan

> On Mar 26, 2021, at 2:35 PM, Arthur Blomme via craic <craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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> Hi all
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> here again is the standard link for Craic 
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> Join recurring Zoom Meeting 10:30 EDT Saturday
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/516255319?pwd=ZnpFbTdEOFI1d2ZEdnpKTWt5UnJWZz09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/516255319?pwd=ZnpFbTdEOFI1d2ZEdnpKTWt5UnJWZz09>
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> This Saturday we will discuss the Webinar on our Fragile Democracy.
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> the following are thoughts that may stimulate our conversation on this webinar.  
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> Laudato Si identifies technocracy as the principle enemy to the resolution of our Environmental crisis.  The Webinar did not explicitly address  technocratic takeover.  How  does do the individuals in the webinar understand Technocracy?
> Charles Taylor mentions in several occasions  that the solution to the polarization of left and right perspectives is to mobilize communities to make changes of mutual benefit.  How do you visualize this kind of mobilization?
> See you all Tomorrow.
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> Be Well
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> Art
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> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:30 PM Arthur Blomme via craic <craic at lists.integralshift.ca <mailto:craic at lists.integralshift.ca>> wrote:
> I am listening to the panel now.  below are two links to the panel discussion on our Fragile democracy. 
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>  <https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/03/fragile-democracy-technocratic-takeover-popular-renewal>
> https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/03/fragile-democracy-technocratic-takeover-popular-renewal <https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/03/fragile-democracy-technocratic-takeover-popular-renewal>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_982MZ-wg&t=11s <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_982MZ-wg&t=11s>
> Live Well
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> Art
> On 3/13/21 7:53 a.m., Arthur Blomme wrote:
> I believe that this is a very timely event dealing with one of the most important  issues of our time.  This could be a focal point for a renewed consensus and focus for our community.  Like Laudato Si it identifies the evil of a Technocratic takeover.  It is at the same time as or a half hour after our next saturday zoom meeting.   I was wondering if we could discuss this topic following the event in a zoom meeting next Saturday.
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> We are experiencing a crisis of democracy more powerful than anything seen in a generation: inequality continues at a galloping pace; policing is increasingly racialized and militarized; political decision-making appears remote and divorced from the lives of ordinary people.
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> This panel discussion—including renowned philosopher Charles Taylor--will consider                                                           sources and solutions to the present crisis of democracy by drawing on two recent books: Reconstructing Democracy by Charles Taylor, Patrizia Nanz, and Madeleine Beaubien Taylor and We Built Reality by Jason Blakely. 
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> Both works identify within our political and cultural crisis the loss of democratic participation and the rise of top-down technocratic, managerial rule.
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> Charles Taylor is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University. Although his work has covered a great breadth of subjects, he is perhaps best known for his contributions to political and moral theory. Among his many authored books are A Secular Age (2007), Sources of the Self: the Making of the Modern Identity (1989), and The Ethics of Authenticity(1991). He has received a litany of awards and recognitions for his body of work, including the Ratzinger Prize (2019), the Berggruen Prize (2016), the Kluge Prize (2015), the Kyoto Prize (2008), and the Templeton Prize (2007).
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> Patrizia Nanz is Vice President of the German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam and Director of the German-French Forum for the Future. From 2016 until 2021, she was Scientific Director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. Previously, she was professor for political theory at the University of Bremen. In her work, she is exploring the future of democracy, especially the challenges connected to open government, public administration and citizen participation. 
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> Jason Blakely is an associate professor of political science at Pepperdine University and a Senior Fellow at the Nova Forum for Catholic Thought. His expertise is in political philosophy and hermeneutics. He is the author of We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power(Oxford, 2020) and Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism (Notre Dame, 2016). He also co-authored Interpretive Social Science (Oxford, 2018) with Mark Bevir. Blakely's work has also appeared in top scholarly journals as well as popular venues like the Atlantic and Commonweal.
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