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Charles Taylor
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To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand.
— Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (ed. Cambridge University Press, 1992) - ISBN: 9780521429498
Charles Taylor
22nd president of Liberia
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A Liberian president who rose from warlord to elected office, then became the first head of state convicted of war crimes by an international court. The charges weren't for what happened in his own country's civil war, but for arming Sierra Leone's rebels across the border.
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Born in Arthington in 1948, Charles Taylor studied at Bentley College in the United States before joining Samuel Doe's government in Liberia. Removed for embezzlement and jailed, he escaped prison in 1989 and made his way to Libya for guerrilla training. He returned that same year leading the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, a Libyan-backed force that ignited the First Liberian Civil War and eventually controlled large swaths of territory after Doe's execution. Following a 1996 peace deal, Taylor won the presidency in 1997, but his tenure saw violent purges, an assassination attempt on riv…
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The earlier views, those of Hobbes or Locke for instance, saw language as an instrument, and understood meaning in terms of designation.
— Human Agency and Language (Cambridge: 1985), pp. 9-10
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