Taylorian
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Taylorian (comparative more Taylorian, superlative most Taylorian)
- Of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.
- (business) Of or relating to Taylorism.
- Of or relating to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (born 1931).
- 1974, Marilyn Ann Friedman, The Exploration of Human Behaviour in Terms of Its Rationality (doctoral dissertation), London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, page 374:
- The problem is basically that any mechanical process of cause and effect may be reinterpreted as a "goal-directed" process along Taylorian lines by simply supposing that whatever happens to be its outcome has all along been the "end" toward which the events comprising the process have been "directed".
- 1983, K. R. Minogue, “Relativism on the Banks of the Isis”, in Government and Opposition, volume 18, number 3, , →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 362:
- Later, constructing a notable Taylorian matrix, he argues that Eastonian economic-model theories of political life ‘always end up either laughable, or begging the major question, or both’ (p. 76).
- 2003, Roberta A. Bisaro, Multicultural Practices of Canadian Immigrant Youth: “A Work in Progress” (master’s thesis), Vancouver: University of British Columbia, , page 57:
- The formation of neighbourhoods within a particular school population may be seen as a counterpart to a Taylorian notion of "distinctness" and survivance.
- 2005, Jane Forsey, “Creative Expression and Human Agency: A Critique of the Taylorian Self”, in Symposium, volume 9, number 2, , →ISSN, page 290:
- The U.N. report, while not a philosophical document, nevertheless points to facets of identity-formation that indicate a need to modify the Taylorian account.
- 2014 November 20, “What We’ve Been Reading (& Listening To)”, in First Things[1], retrieved November 19, 2022:
- The first one hundred pages of the book struck me as very Taylorian. Ratzinger’s description of the believer and the unbeliever standing side-by-side whispering “perhaps” into each other’s ears sounds not unlike Charles Taylor’s suggestion that we can’t help but live our faith “in a condition of doubt and uncertainty.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taylorian.