A reformulação do sentido da vida a partir do iluminismo segundo Charles Taylor

In chapters 18 and 19 of the book "Sources of the Self", Charles Taylor seeks to understand the origins of the main elements that form contemporary identity, which leads to a historical analysis towards the end of the middle ages and the beginning of the modern era. Despite the diversity of the elements that form the moral identity found in these periods, one question appears unusual to all of them: the sense of life. This article aims to discuss this topic and show, with Taylor, that this question goes beyond understanding about God's purposes, nature, rationality and utility – but not without drag together characteristics from each of these periods - and culminates in a new way of thinking.  This new conception, in fact, is directly related to the development of individual’s ability to accept their limitations and, like this, seek to understand its irremediable tendency to attribute meaning to all things.