June 21, 2008
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Epiphany at Kyoto:
The Kyoto Prizefor lifetime achievement
in arts and philosophy
this year goes to
Charles Taylor,
Montreal philosophy professor.
“The Kyoto Prize has been given in three domains since 1984: advanced
technology, basic sciences, and the arts and philosophy. It is
administered by the Inamori Foundation, whose president, Kazuo Inamori,
is founder and chairman emeritus of Kyocera and KDDI Corporation, two
Japanese telecommunications giants.”
“The Kyocera brand symbol is composed of a corporate mark and our
corporate logotype. The mark represents the initial ‘K’ (for Kyocera)
encircling a ‘C’ (for ceramics). It was introduced in October 1982 when
the company name was changed from ‘Kyoto Ceramic’ to ‘Kyocera.’”Related material –
Charles Taylor,
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) –“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”See also Talking of Michelangelo.
