Round 10: Tossup 19

A book by this thinker traces the “interiority” of its title concept to Augustine’s development of “radical reflexivity.” In that book, this thinker asserts that our intuitions about what is worthwhile are “strong evaluations” shaped by our “inescapable frameworks” of moral response. The Romantic poets promise a “reenchanted” world according to this thinker’s 2024 tome Cosmic Connections, a sequel to The Language Animal. This thinker’s 1989 magnum opus traces the Enlightenment’s (*) “affirmation of ordinary life” after pitting irreducible identity against “reductive naturalism.” This Catholic discussed the 1982 Charter of Rights in a lecture on how multiculturalism affects the title “Politics of Recognition.” For 10 points, what nonagenarian philosopher who taught at McGill (10[1])wrote A Secular Age and Sources of the Self? ■END■

ANSWER: Charles Taylor [or Charles Margrave Taylor]
<HA, Philosophy> | NAFTA-Packet-10
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/2026367%33%67%91.50
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026450%0%25%116.50
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20262100%0%50%121.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20251100%0%0%111.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20251100%0%100%121.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025333%33%33%62.00
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/2025333%0%100%111.00
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%33%17%89.50
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025367%67%0%59.00