Ethics of authenticity in Charles Taylor`s philosophy

Charles Taylor`s moral and political philosophy with its : collective nature 
has been classified within the modern liberal tradition because of its explicit 
adaptation of modern western democratic principles namely :equality in civil 
and political rights and freedoms . this clearly shows Taylor s adamant refusal 
of all forms of values and beliefs opposing modernity and its literary and 
intellectual heritage .however Taylor s critical and philosophical approach ,is 
not in fact in contradiction with modernity in it self but rather it interacted with 
such modernity in order to identify its points of weakness and dangers and in 
particular its artificial philosophical deviations as evident from his points of 
view of individualistic of despotism liberalism and excessive procedural 
rationality . hence Taylor sees that the individual moral authenticity can not 
be achieved in hypnotized and abstract moral norms or in a selfish utilitarian 
mind but in expressing what he so called the old established back grounds the 
old established cultural heritages laid down by romanticism which highly 
valued the important role played by language and tradition and even by 
religion in building the an throplogical infrastructure it is such heritages that 
set up and creates individual identity and in its practical and existential 
implications ,identity takes the form of authenticity and distinction. Taylor 
considers such cultural heritages as moral values in themselves which help 
individual to understand himself and to fulfil himself from one hand and from 
the other hand they represent an essential base out of which the individual 
proceeds with understanding the legitimate political bases upon which general 
decisions and regulations have to be built . 
undoubtedly our research raise way serious questions foremost among which 
are :what is the attitude of Taylor towards morality ?and how could he connect 
such morality with great values such as goodness ,justice and equality ?how 
could the legitimacy of identity multiplicity ,be theoretically based without any 
con traditions with contractual citizen ship values ?did the recognition of 
cultural independence lead to the split of national unity and to the return of 
tribal system or civil war as Weber described it .here lies the great importance 
of our research ,in attempting to find answers to the above mentioned critical 
questions .in fact this research consists of an introduction and four main 
chapter .the first chapter: the malaises of modernity .the second chapter deals 
with identity and goodness . the 3rd chapter deals with identity and recognition 
.the 4th chapter is mainly concerned with she ding. A light in secularism and 
how Taylor goes for beyond the limits of the tradition of concept of secularism 
which restricted secularism to its relation ship with religion only .
moreover our research also sheds revealing light in Taylor `s definition of the 
term "the secular age "and the position of religion in such age . here we can

recognize in Taylor `s philosophy new conditions for faith which are consistent 
and in harmony with the nature of this" secular age "in accordance with Taylor 
own description .finally the conclusion includes the most important results 
reached by this research.