Abstract

In this paper I analyze the philosophical approach of Charles Taylor to Modernity. For this aim I start considering two different kind of theories in order to stress the most significant aspects of the hermeneutical approach of Modernity. Secondly, I focus on the hermeneutical presupposition of the cultural approach of Modernity. Finally, according to the comment of Paul Ricoeur, I raise the question whether from Taylor’s hermeneutical approach there are universal characteristics of the modernity