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4 days ago · How the philosopher Charles Taylor would heal the ills of modernity. In his new book, the Catholic philosopher, age 92, writes that our future depends upon “people who are deeply rooted in their spiritual sources, often religious.”. These are people who, at least culturally, have retained a sense of the sacred. Overcoming discrimination ...
4 days ago · An engaging disquisition on the philosophy of the Canadian Charles Taylor, who argues that art, music, and poetry are central to what makes us human; they allow us to engage in civic life in a civil way.
1 day ago · Locke redefined subjectivity, or self, leading intellectual historians such as Charles Taylor and Jerrold Seigel to argue that Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689/90) marks the beginning of the modern Western conception of the self.
2 days ago · Lecture. Thursday, July 4, 2024, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Speaker. Charles Taylor, Philosophy, Emeritus, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1 day ago · John Dewey ( / ˈduːi /; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. [7] [8]
3 days ago · Charles Sanders Peirce (/ p ɜːr s / PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
4 days ago · Seyyed Hossein Nasr is a contemporary Islamic philosopher with global influence. His oeuvre covers an extended field from the perennial philosophy, which dominates his philosophical worldview, to religion, science, environmental studies, education, and the arts with particular attention to Islamic and comparative studies, as well as criticism of modernism.
