Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Charles Taylor (philosopher)

Index Charles Taylor (philosopher)

Charles Margrave Taylor (born 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy, and intellectual history. [1]

139 relations: A Secular Age, Action theory (philosophy), Aesthetics, Alan Macnaughton, Alasdair MacIntyre, Alexis de Tocqueville, All Souls College, Oxford, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Analytic philosophy, Anne Lagacé Dowson, Aristotle, Arjun Appadurai, Axel Honneth, Émile Durkheim, B. F. Skinner, Bachelor of Arts, Balliol College, Oxford, Behaviorism, Berggruen Institute, Bernard Williams, Blog, C. B. Macpherson, Canadian federal election, 1962, Canadian federal election, 1963, Canadian federal election, 1965, Canadian federal election, 1968, Canadian idealism, Canadians, Catherine Pickstock, Chichele Professorship, Christian Smith (sociologist), Christopher Lasch, Cognitive psychology, Communitarianism, Contemporary philosophy, Cosmopolitanism, Daniel Bell, Doctor of Philosophy, Dollard (electoral district), Emeritus, Epistemology, Ethics, Evanston, Illinois, Form of life (philosophy), G. E. M. Anscombe, Gérard Bouchard, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, George Grant (philosopher), Gilles Lipovetsky, Hans-Georg Gadamer, ..., Hermeneutics, House of Commons of Canada, Hubert Dreyfus, Intellectual history, Isaiah Berlin, Islamophobia, Jack Layton, James Tully (philosopher), Jürgen Habermas, John Locke, John Milbank, John Plamenatz, John Rawls, John Watson (philosopher), Karl Marx, Ken Wilber, Kluge Prize, Knowledge, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kyoto Prize, Liberal Party of Canada, Liberalism, List of people from Montreal, Logical positivism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martha Nussbaum, Martin Heidegger, Massey Lectures, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Weber, McGill University, Michael J. Sandel, Michael Polanyi, Michael Walzer, Modernity, Montreal, Mount Royal (electoral district), Multiculturalism, National Order of Quebec, Naturalism (philosophy), New Democratic Party, Nikolas Kompridis, Northwestern University, Order of Canada, Paul Berman, Paul Ricœur, Phenomenology (philosophy), Philosopher, Philosophical Investigations, Philosophy, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of social science, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Pierre Manent, Pierre Trudeau, Plato, Political philosophy, Political science, Premise, Prime Minister of Canada, Proposition, Quebec, Quentin Skinner, Reasonable accommodation, Religion, Rhodes Scholarship, Richard Rorty, Robert Neelly Bellah, Ronald Dworkin, Secularism, Secularization, Selwyn House School, Social democracy, Sources of the Self, Stuart Hall (cultural theorist), Talal Asad, Templeton Prize, The Berggruen Prize, Thermonuclear weapon, Thomas Hobbes, University of Oxford, Utilitarianism, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Western philosophy, Wilhelm Dilthey, Will Kymlicka, William E. Connolly, William James. Expand index (89 more) »

A Secular Age

A Secular Age is a book written by the philosopher Charles Taylor which was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–1999).

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and A Secular Age · See more »

Action theory (philosophy)

Action theory (or theory of action) is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Action theory (philosophy) · See more »

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Aesthetics · See more »

Alan Macnaughton

Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton, (July 30, 1903 – July 16, 1999) was a Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 1963 to 1966.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Alan Macnaughton · See more »

Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish philosopher, primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy, but also known for his work in history of philosophy and theology.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Alasdair MacIntyre · See more »

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville (29 July 180516 April 1859) was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Alexis de Tocqueville · See more »

All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College (official name: College of the souls of all the faithful departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and All Souls College, Oxford · See more »

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences · See more »

Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Analytic philosophy · See more »

Anne Lagacé Dowson

Anne Lagacé Dowson (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian radio journalist.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Anne Lagacé Dowson · See more »

Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Aristotle · See more »

Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Arjun Appadurai · See more »

Axel Honneth

Axel Honneth (born July 18, 1949) is a professor of philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt and Columbia University.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Axel Honneth · See more »

Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Émile Durkheim · See more »

B. F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and B. F. Skinner · See more »

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Bachelor of Arts · See more »

Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Balliol College, Oxford · See more »

Behaviorism

Behaviorism (or behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Behaviorism · See more »

Berggruen Institute

The Berggruen Institute (formerly Berggruen Institute on Governance) is an independent, non-partisan think tank which develops ideas to shape political and social institutions.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Berggruen Institute · See more »

Bernard Williams

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Bernard Williams · See more »

Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Blog · See more »

C. B. Macpherson

Crawford Brough Macpherson (18 November 1911 – 22 July 1987) was an influential Canadian political scientist who taught political theory at the University of Toronto.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and C. B. Macpherson · See more »

Canadian federal election, 1962

The Canadian federal election of 1962 was held on June 18, 1962 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 25th Parliament of Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Canadian federal election, 1962 · See more »

Canadian federal election, 1963

The Canadian federal election of 1963 was held on April 8 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 26th Parliament of Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Canadian federal election, 1963 · See more »

Canadian federal election, 1965

The Canadian federal election of 1965 was held on November 8 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 27th Parliament of Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Canadian federal election, 1965 · See more »

Canadian federal election, 1968

The Canadian federal election of 1968 was held on June 25, 1968, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 28th Parliament of Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Canadian federal election, 1968 · See more »

Canadian idealism

Canadian idealism is a Canadian philosophical tradition that stemmed from British idealism.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Canadian idealism · See more »

Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Canadians · See more »

Catherine Pickstock

Catherine Pickstock (active 1988-) is an English philosophical theologian.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Catherine Pickstock · See more »

Chichele Professorship

The Chichele Professorships are statutory professorships at the University of Oxford named in honour of Henry Chichele (also spelt Chicheley or Checheley, although the spelling of the academic position is consistently "Chichele"), an Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Chichele Professorship · See more »

Christian Smith (sociologist)

Christian Smith is an American sociologist, currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Christian Smith (sociologist) · See more »

Christopher Lasch

Christopher "Kit" Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Christopher Lasch · See more »

Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking".

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Cognitive psychology · See more »

Communitarianism

Communitarianism is a philosophy that emphasizes the connection between the individual and the community.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Communitarianism · See more »

Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Contemporary philosophy · See more »

Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Cosmopolitanism · See more »

Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Daniel Bell · See more »

Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Doctor of Philosophy · See more »

Dollard (electoral district)

Dollard was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1953 to 1988.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Dollard (electoral district) · See more »

Emeritus

Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Emeritus · See more »

Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Epistemology · See more »

Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Ethics · See more »

Evanston, Illinois

Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, north of downtown Chicago, bordered by Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Evanston, Illinois · See more »

Form of life (philosophy)

Form of life (Lebensform) is a technical term used by Ludwig Wittgenstein and others in the continental philosophy and philosophy of science traditions.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Form of life (philosophy) · See more »

G. E. M. Anscombe

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and G. E. M. Anscombe · See more »

Gérard Bouchard

Gérard Bouchard (born December 26, 1943) is a historian, sociologist and writer from Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Gérard Bouchard · See more »

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and the most important figure of German idealism.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · See more »

George Grant (philosopher)

George Parkin Grant (13 November 1918 – 27 September 1988) was a Canadian philosopher and political commentator.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and George Grant (philosopher) · See more »

Gilles Lipovetsky

Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944 in Millau) is a French philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Gilles Lipovetsky · See more »

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Hans-Georg Gadamer · See more »

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Hermeneutics · See more »

House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and House of Commons of Canada · See more »

Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Hubert Dreyfus · See more »

Intellectual history

Intellectual history refers to the historiography of ideas and thinkers.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Intellectual history · See more »

Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Isaiah Berlin · See more »

Islamophobia

Islamophobia is the fear, hatred of, or prejudice against, the Islamic religion or Muslims generally, especially when seen as a geopolitical force or the source of terrorism.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Islamophobia · See more »

Jack Layton

John Gilbert "Jack" Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011) was a Canadian politician and Leader of the Official Opposition.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Jack Layton · See more »

James Tully (philosopher)

James Hamilton Tully (born 1946) is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and James Tully (philosopher) · See more »

Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Jürgen Habermas · See more »

John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and John Locke · See more »

John Milbank

Alasdair John Milbank (born 1952) is an English Anglican theologian and was the Research Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham, where he also directs the Centre of Theology and Philosophy.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and John Milbank · See more »

John Plamenatz

John Petrov Plamenatz born as Jovan Petrov Plamenac (Јован Петров Пламенац, 16 May 1912 – 19 February 1975), was a Montenegrin political philosopher, who spent most of his academic life at the University of Oxford.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and John Plamenatz · See more »

John Rawls

John Bordley Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral and political philosopher in the liberal tradition.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and John Rawls · See more »

John Watson (philosopher)

John Watson (1847–1939) was a Canadian philosopher and academic.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and John Watson (philosopher) · See more »

Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Karl Marx · See more »

Ken Wilber

Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Ken Wilber · See more »

Kluge Prize

The John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity is awarded since 2003 for lifetime achievement in the humanities and social sciences to celebrate the importance of the Intellectual Arts for the public interest.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Kluge Prize · See more »

Knowledge

Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Knowledge · See more »

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah (born May 8, 1954) is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Kwame Anthony Appiah · See more »

Kyoto Prize

The is Japan's highest private award for global achievement.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Kyoto Prize · See more »

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada (Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federal political party in Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Liberal Party of Canada · See more »

Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Liberalism · See more »

List of people from Montreal

This is a list of notable people from Montreal.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and List of people from Montreal · See more »

Logical positivism

Logical positivism and logical empiricism, which together formed neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was verificationism, a theory of knowledge which asserted that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are cognitively meaningful.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Logical positivism · See more »

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Ludwig Wittgenstein · See more »

Martha Nussbaum

Martha Craven Nussbaum (born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy department.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Martha Nussbaum · See more »

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics, and is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism, though as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification".

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Martin Heidegger · See more »

Massey Lectures

The Massey Lectures are an annual five-part series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic given in Canada by a noted scholar.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Massey Lectures · See more »

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty · See more »

Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Max Weber · See more »

McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and McGill University · See more »

Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel (born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Michael J. Sandel · See more »

Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi, (11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Michael Polanyi · See more »

Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer (March 3, 1935) is a prominent American political theorist and public intellectual.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Michael Walzer · See more »

Modernity

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era), as well as the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of Renaissance, in the "Age of Reason" of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century "Enlightenment".

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Modernity · See more »

Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Montreal · See more »

Mount Royal (electoral district)

Mount Royal (Mont-Royal) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Mount Royal (electoral district) · See more »

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a term with a range of meanings in the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and in colloquial use.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Multiculturalism · See more »

National Order of Quebec

The National Order of Quebec, termed officially in French as l'Ordre national du Québec, and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and National Order of Quebec · See more »

Naturalism (philosophy)

In philosophy, naturalism is the "idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws and forces operate in the world." Adherents of naturalism (i.e., naturalists) assert that natural laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that the changing universe at every stage is a product of these laws.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Naturalism (philosophy) · See more »

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a social democraticThe party is widely described as social democratic.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and New Democratic Party · See more »

Nikolas Kompridis

Nikolas Kompridis, is a Canadian philosopher and political theorist.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Nikolas Kompridis · See more »

Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Northwestern University · See more »

Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Order of Canada · See more »

Paul Berman

Paul Lawrence Berman (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Paul Berman · See more »

Paul Ricœur

Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur (27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Paul Ricœur · See more »

Phenomenology (philosophy)

Phenomenology (from Greek phainómenon "that which appears" and lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Phenomenology (philosophy) · See more »

Philosopher

A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy, which involves rational inquiry into areas that are outside either theology or science.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosopher · See more »

Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen) is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, first published, posthumously, in 1953, in which Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosophical Investigations · See more »

Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosophy · See more »

Philosophy of language

Philosophy of language explores the relationship between language and reality.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosophy of language · See more »

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosophy of mind · See more »

Philosophy of social science

The philosophy of social science is the study of the logic, methods, and foundations of social sciences such as psychology, economics, and political science.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosophy of social science · See more »

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is an interdisciplinary undergraduate/post-graduate degree which combines study from three disciplines.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Philosophy, Politics and Economics · See more »

Pierre Manent

Pierre Manent (born 6 May 1949, Toulouse) is a French political scientist and academic.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Pierre Manent · See more »

Pierre Trudeau

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), often referred to by the initials PET, was a Canadian statesman who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984).

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Pierre Trudeau · See more »

Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Plato · See more »

Political philosophy

Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Political philosophy · See more »

Political science

Political science is a social science which deals with systems of governance, and the analysis of political activities, political thoughts, and political behavior.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Political science · See more »

Premise

A premise or premiss is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Premise · See more »

Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Prime Minister of Canada · See more »

Proposition

The term proposition has a broad use in contemporary analytic philosophy.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Proposition · See more »

Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Quebec · See more »

Quentin Skinner

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940, Oldham, Lancashire) is an intellectual historian.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Quentin Skinner · See more »

Reasonable accommodation

A reasonable accommodation is an adjustment made in a system to accommodate or make fair the same system for an individual based on a proven need.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Reasonable accommodation · See more »

Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Religion · See more »

Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after the Anglo-South African mining magnate and politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Rhodes Scholarship · See more »

Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Richard Rorty · See more »

Robert Neelly Bellah

Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist, and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Robert Neelly Bellah · See more »

Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Myles Dworkin, FBA (December 11, 1931 – February 14, 2013) was an American philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Ronald Dworkin · See more »

Secularism

Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institution and religious dignitaries (the attainment of such is termed secularity).

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Secularism · See more »

Secularization

Secularization (or secularisation) is the transformation of a society from close identification and affiliation with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Secularization · See more »

Selwyn House School

Selwyn House School (SHS) is a private independent boys' school located in Westmount, Quebec.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Selwyn House School · See more »

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Social democracy · See more »

Sources of the Self

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity is a work of philosophy by Charles Taylor, published in 1989 by Harvard University Press.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Sources of the Self · See more »

Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist and Marxist sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) · See more »

Talal Asad

Talal Asad (born April 1932) is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Talal Asad · See more »

Templeton Prize

The Templeton Prize is an annual award presented by the Templeton Foundation.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Templeton Prize · See more »

The Berggruen Prize

According to its website, the Berggruen Institute "offers the Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award that recognizes thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change.".

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and The Berggruen Prize · See more »

Thermonuclear weapon

A thermonuclear weapon is a second-generation nuclear weapon design using a secondary nuclear fusion stage consisting of implosion tamper, fusion fuel, and spark plug which is bombarded by the energy released by the detonation of a primary fission bomb within, compressing the fuel material (tritium, deuterium or lithium deuteride) and causing a fusion reaction.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Thermonuclear weapon · See more »

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Thomas Hobbes · See more »

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and University of Oxford · See more »

Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Utilitarianism · See more »

Vitit Muntarbhorn

Vitit Muntarbhorn is an international human rights expert and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Vitit Muntarbhorn · See more »

Western philosophy

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Western philosophy · See more »

Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey (19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Wilhelm Dilthey · See more »

Will Kymlicka

Will Kymlicka (born 1962) is a Canadian political philosopher best known for his work on multiculturalism and animal ethics.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and Will Kymlicka · See more »

William E. Connolly

William Eugene Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and William E. Connolly · See more »

William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

New!!: Charles Taylor (philosopher) and William James · See more »

Redirects here:

Charles Margrave Taylor, Charles Taylor (philosophy).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(philosopher)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »