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20 March 2007

Charles TaylorKorrents 20 Mar 2007

From one piece Templeton Prize Winner Taylor Talks About Spirituality in Modern Society (PBS NewsHour, interview by Ray Suarez) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Extremist movements draw young people by offering meaning and dignity

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And somebody comes along and gives them a tremendous sense of meaning and dignity and power if they join this movement and even sometimes do some terrible things.

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The humanities and social sciences leave out the spiritual dimension of human life

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they try to explain everything human beings do by talking about economic factors, political factors, drive for power, all of which are important, but they leave out what I call the spiritual dimension.

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