Berggruen Prize for Philosophy

The Berggruen Prize
Awarded for	a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity
Presented by	The Berggruen Institute
First awarded	2016
Winners	Charles Taylor
Website	[1]

According to its website, the Berggruen Institute "offers the Berggruen Prize, a $1 million award that recognizes thinkers whose ideas have helped us find direction, wisdom, and improved self-understanding in a world being rapidly transformed by profound social, technological, political, cultural, and economic change."

The first recipient of the Berggruen Prize was the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, whose work "urges us to see humans as constituted not only by their biology or their personal intentions, but also by their existence within language and webs of meaningful relationships."

The Prize is awarded yearly in December, with a ceremony at the New York Public Library. In 2016, ceremony speakers included University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann and journalist Fareed Zakaria.

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