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Charles Margrave Taylor was born in Montreal, Quebec, on November 5, 1931, to a Roman Catholic Francophone mother and a Protestant Anglophone father by whom he was raised bilingually. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] His father, Walter Margrave Taylor, was a steel magnate originally from Toronto while his mother, Simone Marguerite Beaubien, was a dressmaker. [ 53 ]
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity [1] is a work of philosophy by Charles Taylor, published in 1989 by Harvard University Press. It is an attempt to articulate and to write a history of the "modern identity". [2]
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 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah [1] has referred to A Secular Age as "one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime." [2]
The Malaise of Modernity is a book by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor based on his 1991 Massey Lecture of the same title. [1] [2] Originally published by House of Anansi Press, it was republished by Harvard University Press with the title The Ethics of Authenticity. [3]
The Politics of Recognition" is a 1992 essay by the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, based on the inaugural lecture he delivered at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. [1] The essay discusses political currents that seek recognition for particular identity groups. [2]
Charles Taylor: Living in a Secular Age, published as A Secular Age: ISBN 0-674-02676-4: 1999–00 David Tracy: This side of God: 2000–01 Onora O'Neill: Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics: 2001–02 Mohammed Arkoun: Inaugurating a Critique of Islamic Reason: 2002–03 Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror: ISBN ...
Charles Taylor works to resolve one of the issues that separate 'positive' and 'negative' theories of freedom, as these have been distinguished in Isaiah Berlin's seminal essay, "Two concepts of liberty". He sees it as undeniable that there are two such families of conceptions of political freedom.
In contrast to Berlin, Charles Taylor argues that the Hobbes-Bentham view is indefensible as a view of freedom. Faced with this two-step process, it seems safer and easier to stop it at the first step, to insist firmly that freedom is just a matter of the absence of external obstacles, that it, therefore, involves no discrimination of ...