Professor Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher who for nearly half a century has argued that problems such as violence and bigotry can only be solved by considering both their secular and spiritual dimensions, has won the 2007 Templeton Prize.
Taylor, who is the first Canadian to win the Templeton Prize (Charles Colson was a previous winner), has had a significant impact on my thinking regarding cultural identity through his essay "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition." Jean Charest, premier of Quebec, has recently appointed Taylor, who lives in Montreal, to co-chair a commission on accommodation of cultural religious differences in public life.
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