The 2008 Kyoto Prize Workshops

A Secular Age and After —Secularization and Modernity—

Charles Margrave Taylor

/　　Philosopher

Arts and Philosophy

Thought and Ethics

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2008

11 /12 Wed

13:00 - 17:00

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:00

Opening Address	Heita Kawakatsu

Introduction of Laureate	Heita Kawakatsu

Laureate Lecture	Charles Margrave Taylor (the Laureate in Arts and Philosophy) “Master Narratives of Secularity”

Intermission

Panel Discussion
Moderator:	Heita Kawakatsu
Panelists:	Charles Margrave Taylor Shozo Iijima (Professor, Senior Dean, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University) Tatsuo Inoue (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo) Tomohiko Tanaka (Associate Professor, Charles Margrave Taylor Shozo Iijima (Professor, Senior Dean, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University) Tatsuo Inoue (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo) Tomohiko Tanaka (Associate Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University) Yasuo Tsuji (Professor, School of Law, Hokkaido University) Takamitsu Nakano (Research Lecturer, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiba University)

17:00

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Laureates

Charles Margrave Taylor

Philosopher

Dr. Taylor is an outstanding philosopher who advocates communitarianism and multiculturalism from the perspective of holistic individualism. He has pointed the future course for us through his own life, envisioning the future in which diverse, heterogeneous cultures peacefully coexist upon mutual recognition.

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date: 13:00 – 17:00, November 12, 2008 (Wed.)
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinator and Supervisor: Heita Kawakatsu (Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee in Arts and Philosophy; President, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)

: Organized by Inamori Foundation
: Supported by Kyoto Prefectural Government, Kyoto City Government, and NHK
: With the cooperation of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy, Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought, The Japanese Society for Ethics, The Philosophical Association of Japan, The Society for the History of Social Thought