{"id":18016,"date":"2012-08-12T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T07:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18016"},"modified":"2022-08-07T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:32:11","slug":"taylor-alfred-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/taylor-alfred-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Alfred Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27268\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/A.E.Taylor.gif\" alt=\"A.E.Taylor\" width=\"206\" height=\"272\" \/>Alfred Edward<\/strong><strong> Taylor (1869-1945) <\/strong>was a British philosopher and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and subsequently at the University of Edinburgh. He was the author of a number of works on philosophy and metaphysics which included a commentary on Plato\u2019s <em>Timaeus and Critias <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\">853<\/a>]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>+<\/strong><\/span><\/sup><em>.\u00a0 <\/em>However, Taylor considered the Atlantis story to be <em>\u201can invention of Plato\u2019s fancy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also referred to the wilder Atlantis theories which <em>\u201cseem to have a curious fascination for the imperfectly educated.\u201d<\/em> Ouch!<\/p>\n<p><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\">853<\/a>]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>+ <\/strong><\/span><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.499834?q=Atlantis\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.499834?q=Atlantis<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred Edward Taylor (1869-1945) was a British philosopher and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and subsequently at the University of Edinburgh. He was the author of a number of works on philosophy and metaphysics which included a commentary on Plato\u2019s Timaeus and Critias [853]+.\u00a0 However, Taylor considered the Atlantis story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1270],"class_list":["post-18016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-e-taylor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55641,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18016\/revisions\/55641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}