 In the first half of the 20th century, Taylor remained, in a reactionary age of anti-metaphysics and growing political irrationalism, a lonely but stalwart defender of 19th century European philosophical idealism in the English-speaking world.But his scholarship was not confined to Greek philosophy.In 1938 Taylor published in Philosophy, 13, 406–24, a landmark article, "The Ethical Doctrine of Hobbes".