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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Charles Margrave Taylor was born in,, on November 5, 1931, to a francophone mother and an anglophone father by whom he was raised bilingually. He attended from 1941 to 1946 and began his undergraduate education at where he received a (BA) degree in history in 1952. He continued his studies at the, first as a at, receiving a BA degree in in 1955, and then as a postgraduate student, receiving a degree in 1961 under the supervision of and. As an undergraduate student, he started one of the first campaigns to ban in the United Kingdom in 1956.

He succeeded as at the University of Oxford and became a of. N64 Roms Deutsch Zelda. For many years, both before and after Oxford, he was Professor of and at in,, where he is now. Taylor was also a Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy at in for several years after his retirement from McGill. Taylor was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the in 1986. In 1991, Taylor was appointed to the in the province of, at which point he critiqued Quebec's commercial sign laws.

In 1995, he was made a Companion of the. In 2000, he was made a Grand Officer of the. He was awarded the 2007 for progress towards research or discoveries about spiritual realities, which includes a cash award of US$1.5 million. In 2007 he and were appointed to head a one-year Commission of Inquiry into what would constitute 'reasonable accommodation' for minority cultures in his home province of Quebec, Canada.

In June 2008, he was awarded the in the arts and philosophy category. The Kyoto Prize is sometimes referred to as the Japanese Nobel. In 2015, he was awarded the, a prize he shared with philosopher. In 2016, he was awarded the inaugural $1-million for being 'a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity.' Views [ ] In order to understand Taylor's views, it is helpful to understand his philosophical background, especially his writings on,,, and.

Taylor rejects and formalist. He is part of an influential intellectual tradition of that includes, Paxton Young,, and. In his essay 'To Follow a Rule', Taylor explores why people can fail to follow rules, and what kind of it is that allows a person to successfully follow a rule, such as the arrow on a sign. The intellectualist tradition presupposes that to follow directions, we must know a set of and about how to follow directions. Taylor argues that Wittgenstein's solution is that all interpretation of rules draws upon a tacit background.

This background is not more rules or premises, but what calls. More specifically, Wittgenstein says in the that 'Obeying a rule is a practice.' Taylor situates the interpretation of rules within the practices that are incorporated into our bodies in the form of habits, dispositions, and tendencies. Following Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty,,, and Wittgenstein, Taylor argues that it is mistaken to presuppose that our understanding of the world is primarily mediated by representations. It is only against an unarticulated background that representations can make sense to us.