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A 4 page essay that considers 2 books. Charles Taylor in Modern Social Imaginaries and John Rawls in Political Liberalism describe and discuss the transition period between premodern and modern political world, but with differing emphasis and interpretations. Taylor takes a broad scope that considers the overall cognitive changes that occurred as the Western world transitioned toward modern political ideas of democracy and equality, while Rawls takes a narrower thematic focus on the issue of justice and concepts of justice evolved, and evolving, within the context of modernity. This examination of both books considers how these authors describe the transition period between the premodern and modern worlds. No additional sources cited.
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considers the overall cognitive changes that occurred as the Western world transitioned toward modern political ideas of democracy and equality, while Rawls takes a narrower thematic focus on the issue
of justice and concepts of justice evolved, and evolving, within the context of modernity. The following examination of both books considers how these authors describe the transition period between the
premodern and modern worlds. In his introduction, Taylor explains his perspective on modernity and his main hypothesis, which is that Western modernity is "inseparable from a certain kind of
social imaginary" and that "a new conception of the moral order of society" is central to Western societys ideas of modernity.i Taylor associates the origins of modernity with the "new
theories of Natural Law" that developed in the seventeenth century in reaction to the societal "disorder wrought by the wars of religion."ii In particular, Taylor focuses on the theories devised
by Grotius and Locke. He contrasts the ideas proposed by the Enlightenment philosophers with those of the Middle Ages, which conceptualized moral order for human societies in terms of
that are reflective of the natural order. Taylor explains that medieval society saw moral order as "organized around a notion of a hierarchy in society that expresses and corresponds to
a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken over, displace, or marginalized by the Grotian-Lockean strand during
the transition to political modernity."iv (Taylor 9). Any attempt to deviate from this ordained hierarchy was viewed by peoples prior to the seventeenth century and the Age of Enlightenment
as actions that would "turn reality against itself," causing repercussions not only in human society, but also in the natural world.v To substantiate his point, Taylor cites lines from Shakespeares
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