Charles Taylor

Charles Margrave Taylor, born in 1931 in Montreal, Canada, is a Canadian philosopher and professor emeritus at McGill University, renowned for his contributions to political philosophy, philosophy of social science, history of philosophy, and intellectual history. Educated at McGill and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he authored over 20 influential books including Sources of the Self (1989), The Ethics of Authenticity (1991), and A Secular Age (2007), earning prestigious awards like the Templeton Prize and Kyoto Prize. A devout Catholic thinker, his work explores modernity, identity, secularity, and multiculturalism.