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Alasdair MacIntyre regards our contemporary situation as one of interminable disagreement about moral values, a disagreement that derives from the ethical inadequacy of the modern conception of the self. Charles Taylor, by contrast, thinks there is considerable agreement about moral values but considerable confusion and disagreement about the sources of these values, where “sources” are whatever it is that accounts for the unquestionable hold morality has on us. Further, although he agrees with MacIntyre that the moral sources tapped by the Enlightenment project of modern philosophy are ultimately inadequate, he has a far more favorable view than MacIntyre of their richness, power, and even inevitability.
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Alasdair MacIntyre regards our contemporary situation as one of interminable disagreement about moral values, a disagreement that derives from the ethical inadequacy of the modern conception of the self. Charles Taylor, by contrast, thinks there is considerable agreement about moral values but considerable confusion and disagreement about the sources of these values, where “sources” are whatever it is that accounts for the unquestionable hold morality has on us. Further, although he agrees with MacIntyre that the moral sources tapped by the Enlightenment project of modern philosophy are ultimately inadequate, he has a far more favorable view than MacIntyre of their richness, power, and even inevitability.
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