La Sola Razón

Revsita de Filosofa Open Insight
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Centro de Investigacin Social Avanzada
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Taylor, Charles
DIE BLOSSE VERNUNFT
Revsita de Filosofa Open Insight, vol. IV, nm. 10, julio-diciembre, 2015, pp. 207-237
Centro de Investigacin Social Avanzada
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Die Blosse Vernunft
(La sola razn)1
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ne), aparecido en Dilemmas and Connections, Cambridge/London: Harvard University
Press, 2011, pp. 326-346. Agradecemos a la Universidad de Harvard y a Charles Taylor por
la cesin de los derechos para su publicacin en espaol en este nmero de la Revista
de filosofa Open Insight. [N. del E.]
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2 Cfr. John Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, vol. I, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); & Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Roads to
Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments (Nueva York: Knopf, 2004).
3 Vid. Alexis de Tocqueville, La democracia en Amrica, trad. Dolores Snchez de Aleu
(Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2002).
4 Expresin francesa de tiempos de la Revolucin que se utilizaba para designar a una
persona aristcrata despojada de su ttulo nobiliario; e. g., el ci-devant de Orlens en
lugar del duque de Orlens. [N. del T.]
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5 En ingls, el autor utiliza el trmino Reason alone (la razn sola o solamente) para
traducir la expresin de Immanuel Kant, blosse Vernuft que aparece en la important-
sima obra La religin en los lmites de la mera razn (Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen
der bloen Vernunft), por lo que la expresin de Taylor podra traducirse como mera
razn por su referencia kantiana segn la traduccin estndar de Felipe Martnez Mar-
zoa (Madrid: Alianza, 1986). Sin embargo, viene al caso traducir sola razn, adems
de por su sentido literal, tambin por las reminiscencias luteranas de la sola fidei y sola
Scriptura, en tanto que la expresin condensa el mito ilustrado que el artculo denun-
cia. Asimismo, las citas de otros autores que aparecen a lo largo del texto, salvo que se
especifique lo contrario, son traducciones directas del ingls tal como aparecen en el
artculo original de Taylor. [N. del T.]
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sin castellana, traducida por Daniel Gascn: El Dios que no naci. Religin, poltica y el
Occidente moderno, Debate: Barcelona, 2010].
7 Ibid., p. 162.
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8 Jrgen Habermas, Zwischen Naturalismus une Religion (Frncfort del Meno: Suhrkam-
pf, 2005), p. 137 [Hay versin castellana: Entre naturalismo y religin, Barcelona: Paids,
2006]. Por supuesto, Habermas lleva razn: el lenguaje oficial en las distintas demo-
cracias debe esquivar ciertas diferencias religiosas aunque esto no debera incluir los
debates al interior del pleno, mas no porque sean especficamente religiosas, sino por-
que no son compartidas. Sera tan inaceptable, digamos, justificar alguna legislacin
mediante una clusula en caso de que haga referencia a una filosofa atea como con
otra que invoque la autoridad del texto bblico.
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9 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marqus de Condorcet, Esquisse dun tableau
historique des progres de lesprit humain (Pars: Flamarion, 1988), p. 25 [Bosquejo de un
cuadro histrico de los progresos del espritu humano, ed. Antonio Torres del Moral, Ma-
drid: Centro de Estudios Polticos y Constitucionales, 2004]. Tambin he aprendido con-
siderablemente de la interesante discusin hallada en: Vincent Descombes, Le raissone-
ment de lours (Pars: Seuil, 2007), pp. 163-178.
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12 He discutido esto largamente en Modern Social Imaginaries (Durham: Duke Univer-

sity Press, 2004) [Imaginarios sociales modernos, trad. de Ramn Vila Vernis, Barcelona:
Paids editores, 2006.]
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13 Cfr. John Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and Feudal Law (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1987).
14 El trmino economa moral lo tomo de E. P. Thomson, The Moral Economy of the
English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century, en: Past and Present 50 (1971), pp. 76-136.
15 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, acto II, escena 3.
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16 Citado en Louis Dupr, Passage to Modernity (Nueva Haven: Yale University Press,
1993), p. 19.
17 El sol no rebasar sus medidas; que si las rebasare, las Erinias, pinturas de la Justicia,
sabran encontrarlo, citado en George H. Sabine, Historia de la teora poltica, trad. Vi-
cente Herrero (Mxico: FCE, 1994), p. 46.
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23 Ver la discusin en Mark Lilla, Op. cit.
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10 Cfr. Immanuel Kant, Qu es la Ilustracin?, en Filosofa de la Historia, trad. Eugenio

11 Disentchantment en ingls. [N. del T.]

12 He discutido esto largamente en Modern Social Imaginaries (Durham: Duke Univer-

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18 John Locke, Two Treatesis on Government, I, IX, 86.

20 Ibid. II, V, 34.

23 Ver la discusin en Mark Lilla, Op. cit.

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