A modest ambition

Side-project: a paper on “atomism” in political theory, though the heyday of that discussion was in the 1980s.

Turns out, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor was born exactly 50 years before I was, on November 5, 1931. His own “atomism” paper was first published in 1979. If, by 2029, I publish something of that caliber, or calibre, my ambition will be fulfilled.

(I have no ambition to write anything comparable to Sources of the Self.)