We need both intellect and spirit
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor just won the 2007 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities.
Taylor is to receive the award [$1.5 million] from Prince Philip in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on May 2.
A new Los Angeles Times article [March 15, 2007] reports that Taylor said the prevailing emphasis on the secular in the contemporary culture of science and academic study had shortchanged humanity.
It is impossible, he said, to “really understand” what makes people and societies “tick” without considering both the secular and spiritual.
“People must be able to think in both languages, in both levels — not just with one half of their brain,” Taylor said. To leave out the spiritual is like “working with the other half [of the brain] frozen.”
In his statement on the Templeton Prize site, Taylor writes that “a blindness to the spiritual dimension of human life makes us incapable of exploring issues which are vital to our lives.
“Or to turn it around and state the positive: bringing the spiritual back in opens domains in which important and even exciting discoveries become possible.”
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