I am grateful to Michiel Meijer for his interesting and challenging description of the inner relations and tensions in my account of human agency. There is certainly a lot more to be worked out in this area. His discussion should help further define the issues involved, which are central to our understanding of what it is to be human. -- Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University Michiel Meijer does a great job of bringing out how distinctive, and yet how valuable, Charles Taylors contribution to contemporary debates in ethics is. Centering on Taylors important, multi-layered concept of strong evaluation, Meijer ranges across decades of Taylors writings to masterfully explicate the complications and nuances of Taylors thought while also engaging constructively with the large secondary literature about it. -- Dr. Ruth Abbey, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame Michiel Meijers book is an impressive addition to the scholarship on Taylor. By focusing on the key concept of strong evaluation, and then analysing how this concept features in Taylors writings in philosophical anthropology, ethics and ontology, Meijer brings a new and interesting perspective to bear on Taylors philosophical work as a whole. -- Nicholas Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University
