“Modern individualism, at least in Western societies, doesn’t mean ceasing to belong at all—that’s the individualism of anomie and breakdown—but imagining oneself as belonging to ever wider and more impersonal entities: the state, the movement, the community of humankind” (Taylor, 2004, p. 160).
Inescapable moral frameworks: “Doing without framework is utterly impossible for us; otherwise put . . . the horizons within which we live our lives and which make sense of them have to include these strong qualitative discriminations” (Taylor 1989, p. 27).