Alfred Edward Taylor | |
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| Born | 22 December 1869 |
| Died | 31 October 1945 (aged 75)[1] Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | British idealism Neo-Hegelianism |
| Institutions | New College, Oxford Merton College McGill University, Montreal University of St. Andrews University of Edinburgh |
Main interests | Metaphysics Philosophy of religion Moral philosophy Scholarship of Plato |
Notable ideas | The Taylor thesis |
Alfred Edward Taylor (22 December 1869 – 31 October 1945), usually cited as A. E. Taylor, was a British idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of Plato.[2] He was a fellow of the British Academy (1911) and president of the Aristotelian Society from 1928 to 1929. At Oxford he was made an honorary fellow of New College in 1931. In an age of universal upheaval and strife, he was a notable defender of Idealism in the Anglophone world.[3]
- ^ "Obituary. Professor A.E. Taylor. Eminent Platonist". The Glasgow Herald. 2 November 1945. p. 6. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ Andel, Kelly Van. "Biography – Alfred Taylor". Gifford Lecture Series. Archived from the original on 20 April 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ^ Taylor was of the generation which followed after such influential idealists as Balfour, Bradley, and Bosanquet. (The first generations which succeeded that of Taylor, those born in the 1870s and 1880s, are notable for strong, reactionary anti-metaphysical tendencies, especially Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Charles Dunbar Broad, and, although not an Englishman, Ludwig Wittgenstein.) See: A Hundred Years of Philosophy, by John Passmore, London, 1957, Gerald Duckworth & Company, 59, 60, 61, 64, 82, 113, 318.