institutions death_place death_date birth_place era school_tradition influences nationality main_interests birth_date article_title name region
new andrews university of edinburgh college , oxford merton college university of st. edinburgh 31 october 1945 oundle modern philosophy british idealism neo-hegelianism f. h. bradley british metaphysics philosophy of religion moral philosophy scholarship of plato 22 december 1869 alfred edward taylor
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alfred edward taylor

alfred edward taylor -lrb- 22 december 1869 -- 31 october 1945 -rrb- was a british idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics , the philosophy of religion , moral philosophy , and the scholarship of plato .
he was a fellow of the british academy -lrb- 1911 -rrb- and president of the aristotelian society from 1928 to 1929 .
at oxford he was made an honorary fellow of new college in 1931 .
in an age of universal upheaval and strife , he was a notable defender of idealism in the anglo-saxon world .
