 In later years, most notably in "The Faith of a Moralist," Taylor began to move away from certain doctrines of his early idealistic youth, towards a more mature and comprehensive idealist philosophy.While students at Oxford and Cambridge were in thrall of anti-idealism, Taylor for many years influenced generations of young people at the University of St. Andrews (1908–1924) and the University of Edinburgh (1924–1941), two of the most ancient and prestigious universities of the United Kingdom, where he was Professor of Moral Philosophy.As a philosophical scholar he is considered, alongside Francis Macdonald Cornford, one of the greatest English Platonists of his time.