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Charles Margrave Taylor CC GOQ FRSC (born November 5 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal Quebec best known for his contributions to political philosophy the philosophy of social science and intellectual history. This work has earned him the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the Templeton Prize in addition to widespread esteem among philosophers.

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birth date
1931-11-05
birth place
Canada, Montreal, Quebec
era
20th-century philosophy
individualised GND number
119219719
influenced
Michael Walzer, Nikolas Kompridis, Axel Honneth, Christian Smith (sociologist), Michael J. Sandel
influenced by
Aristotle, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Weber, Michael Polanyi, Plato, Daniel Bell, Paul Ricœur, Hubert Dreyfus, Émile Durkheim, Martin Heidegger, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gilles Lipovetsky, William James, Christopher Lasch
main interest
Political philosophy, Religion, Secularism, Modernity, Cosmopolitanism
philosophicalSchool
Communitarianism, Analytic philosophy
region
Western philosophy

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