The Kyoto Prize

for lifetime achievement
in arts and philosophy
this year goes to
Charles Taylor,

Charles Margrave Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University

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.”

Kyocera Logo

“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.'”

— global.kyocera.com
Related material —

Wittgenstein and Fly from Fly-Bottle

Fly from Fly Bottle:

Graphic structures from Diamond Theory and from Kyocera logo

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.