Herder put forward the ideathat each of us has an original way of being human: eachperson has his or her own “measure.”6
This directly applies to my research topic because it presents the central idea of democracy that everybody is "unique" and therefore each person has their own "measure" and they matter in society.
In order to examine some of the issues that have arisenhere, I’d like to take a step back, achieve a little distance, andlook first at how this discourse of recognition and identitycame to seem familiar, or at least readily understandable, tous.
Here, Taylor is placing his argument in a wider context. This adds credibility and better explains his stance.