ABSTRACT
Charles Margrave Taylor, a prominent Canadian philosopher, and Søren Aabye Kierkegaard are separated by almost 120 years and the Atlantic. Yet, they share some striking similarities in their perceptions of the condition of ordinary human life of their day. The socio-political circumstance of the world to which they came, the cultural traditions, historical situations, philosophical orientation of each thinker about the self in relation to the world, to significant others, and their objection to a totalizing Hegelian philosophical system seem parallel or have remarkable semblances that raise a question about the intellectual influence of one on the other and its extent.
