Epstein Made Efforts to Free the Son of Senegal’s Former President After Corruption Conviction Emails released by the U.S. Justice Department trace a years-long friendship between Jeffrey Epstein and Karim Wade — the son of Senegal’s former president — who was jailed for corruption.

#TomBarrack #FlavioBriatore #Sardinia #AlexanderZhukov #LeonidMinin

#Balkans #WestAfrica #MariusFortelni

#SierraLeone #Liberia

#CharlesTaylor #NaomiCampbell #VladislavDoronin #IvanaTrump #DeGrisogono

#UBS #CreditSuisse #Italy #GianniInfantino

#FIFA #WorldCup #ArasAgalarov #Qatar #PaoloZampolli

Secular Christians — Awkward Asian Theologian We have started the teaching term here in Vianney College Seminary , and I am hitting the ground running with teaching three short courses this semester, on top of my writing commitments. One of th...

NEW POST: Secular Christians

In what sense can otherwise believing Christians still speak and behave in a secular fashion?

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#awkwardasiantheologian #secular #charlestaylor

#CharlesTaylor is such a delight. Cosmic connections: Poetry in the age of Disenchantment - on the reading list - I wish there was a universe in which I could get Taylor and Rorty in a room to talk SF (which I don’t suppose Chuck has engaged)

Five Most Notable Books I Read in 2025

I tilted toward reading more #Canadian #books in 2025, for reasons I probably don’t have to explore here, with some extremely favourable results. Here’s my piece on last year’s top #reads. doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five... #BookSky #CanadaSky #CharlesTaylor #VaclavSmil #Canada

“when we listen to a great #symphony, or #quartet, we are of course aware of passing from one movement to the next, but the whole has a kind of unity which makes of it a single experience. Its parts have a kind of quasi-simultaneity.” - #CharlesTaylor, Cosmic Connections
#music

Five Most Notable Books I Read in 2025

My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc
#books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...

Five Most Notable Books I Read in 2025

Here it is - a couple of days late and a little wonkier than I'd planned. My list of the most notable #books I read in 2025.
#BookSky #reading #fiction #nonfiction #novels #sciencefiction #PhilipKDick #IrisMurdoch #CharlesTaylor #ManueldeLanda #Canadianbooks doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...

2 “ … we would cling to them like shipwrecked sailors to floating spars.” - #CharlesTaylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity Enlightenment liberalism neglected the socially embedded nature of the self, Taylor contends, but the Romantics can tell us how to restore a shared sense of meaning and purpose.

“We are not atoms in a mindless universe, he argues, but agents in a metaphysically alert one, embodied and embedded in meanings we jointly create. #Art is not an accessory to pleasure but the means of our connection to the cosmos.” (June ‘24) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #CharlesTaylor

I am, therefore I think – how Heidegger radically reframed being | Aeon Videos What does it mean to ‘be’? This excerpt provides a brief intro to Heidegger’s philosophy, via jazz, cooking and carpentry

I quite enjoyed this short video from #Aeon magazine on #Heidegger. It features some observations from the #philosopher emeritus of #Canada, the great #CharlesTaylor, along with #HubertDreyfus and other #philosophers, and a musician, a carpenter and a chef.
aeon.co/videos/i-am-...

Original post on bofh.social

If you're into #music, the #RoyalInstitute is publishing some of their seminal #ChristmasLectures series from #CharlesTaylor, all about music, strings, symphonies, trumpets, synthesizers, and more.

From 1989.

- https://youtu.be/p-960zzAa78
- https://youtu.be/OOK-j_Y3U_A
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Its is awful to see #Greece #Malta ( as part of #EU #Europe) support this, or at least not curb it....

Class #BV #BureauVeritas #FR #France and P&I insurance #CharlesTaylor #NorthStandard #UK #UnitedKingdom assisting

#Dynagas #Greek #Shipping #Maritime #Russia

Who Gets Away With Crimes Against Humanity? (The New Republic) From Nuremberg to The Hague, the postwar order promised a universal standard of justice. In practice, it has delivered something else: a system that shields ...

💀🇺🇸💀 "American politicians have long floated above the reach of global #humanrights law no matter how egregious their conduct...escaped unlike #SlobodanMilošević, #CharlesTaylor, and #LaurentGbagbo, and have also frequently intervened on behalf of friends accused of horrific acts.' #ICC

Transcript of YouTube lecture by Charles Taylor " The Inner Self" 1988 gives a fabulous AI creation

'the kardashian idea of inwardness doesn't have a notion of depth'
of course we are hearing CARTESIAN
#charlestaylor #AI #KI #descartes #whowearsitbetter

What’s next on Selfy Stories?

Tune in to find out!

#charlestaylor
#ethics #authenticity #philosophy #literature #selfhood #rachelcusk #morality #truth #self #individualism #selfcreation #selfmaking #lifewriting #autofiction #memoir #selfystories

#charlestaylor #ethics #authenticity #philosophy #literature #selfhood #rachelcusk #morality #truth #self #individualism #selfcreation #selfmaking #lifewriting #autofiction #memoir #selfystories

“ #Economists dazzle #legislators and #bureaucrats with their sophisticated #mathematics even when this is serving crude #policy thinking with potentially disastrous results.” - #CharlesTaylor, The Malaise of #Modernity

“the mechanisms of #inevitability work only when people are divided and fragmented. The predicament alters when there comes to be a common #consciousness.”
- #CharlesTaylor, The Malaise of #Modernity

“The nature of a #free #society is that it will always be the locus of a struggle between higher and lower forms of #freedom.” - #CharlesTaylor, The Malaise of #Modernity

“We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining an #identity, through our acquisition of rich human #languages of #expression.” - #CharlesTaylor, The Malaise of Modernity

Photo of the cover of the book The Malaise of Modernity by Charles Taylor.

Happy #CanadaDay! I’m going to spend some of the day reading The Malaise of Modernity by a national treasure, the #philosopher #CharlesTaylor. I’m also going to try to avoid posting about #US #politics …

Charles Taylor a CIA Informant "” Liberia's Relationship with the US needs to be retooled - By Robtel Neajai Pailey | African Arguments This op-ed was written based on a front page Boston Globe article on Jan. 17, which asserted that Charles Taylor was a CIA informant. However, the Globe on Jan. 25 retracted its statement through an e...

Was #Liberia’s #warlord-turned-#president #CharlesTaylor a #CIA operative? It’s been over a decade since I wrote this African Arguments commentary (bit.ly/4jidsvF) responding to a #BostonGlobe story claiming (then later denying) Taylor-CIA connections (bit.ly/42Bg4gX).

5/9 Born in 1931 near Montreal to a bilingual, bi-religious household, Taylor has lived a life of profound engagement.

He's run for Parliament four times (once losing to Pierre Trudeau), founded a political party, and worked on Québécois sovereignty issues.
#Biography #CharlesTaylor

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👉FINDING MEANING IN DEMOCRACY👈

In a fascinating New Yorker profile by Joshua Rothman, philosopher Charles Taylor offers a remedy for political cynicism: understand democracy as a meaningful quest rather than a broken system.
#Philosophy #Democracy #CharlesTaylor

Monday Morning reading.

#CharlesTaylor foreseeing #Musk mechanisms and citizens' loss of dignity.

Om de writers block voor het begin van hoofdstuk drie van mijn proefschrift wat op te lossen, heb ik vanavond naar een lezing van #CharlesTaylor uit 1988 geluisterd. Taylor is een Canadese filosoof, en de hier aanwezige @gergroot.bsky.social heeft

We Really Are Entering a New Age of Romanticism An update on the war against algorithms and technocratic manipulation

“Recent #books by prominent #thinkers— #CharlesTaylor, Iain McGilchrist, Jonathan Haidt, Andrea Wulf, Kyle Chayka, and others—present complimentary perspectives. They each have their own specific concerns, but contribute to a sense that a new worldview is emerging” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...

A explicação do comportamento
Por Charles Taylor

Prefácio do livro recém-editado.

aterraeredonda.com.br/a-explicacao...

#aterraéredonda #CharlesTaylor

As the Deer: For a Secular Age There is a thirst—a restless, raging thirst we cannot name,a yearning without object,a hunger beyond the reach of reason,a void untouched by all that can be grasped.No logic can soothe it,no truth can...

As the Deer: For a Secular Age

A Poem

www.cruciformjustice.com/post/as-the-...

#charlestaylor #lainMcGilchrist

Charles Taylor (philosopher) - Wikipedia

Given the distemper of the times I will be reading Charles Taylor this year. He helped me orient my thinking. The recognition of poetry, the self as constructed, the importance of multiculturalism are important now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

#CharlesTaylor #Canada #philosophy