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ELIZONDO REYES, Julián  y  ZARATE ORTIZ, José Francisco. The Liberal Ethics of Charles Taylor in the Political Context of Liberal Societies. Eidos [online]. 2019, n.31, pp.91-113. ISSN 1692-8857.

This article presents a critical reflection on the liberal ethical proposal of Charles Taylor and its viability in the political context of current liberal societies. A liberal social and political configuration is understood as one in which greater liberties are promoted and defended in individual rights schemes together with the requirement of respect for those individual guarantees. However, the liberal political context although the most suitable in current societies, presents several ethical problems that Taylor has already identified as the malaise of modernity: excess of individualism, primacy of instrumental reason and fragmentation and polarization of the society. Faced with these challenges and conflicts arising from the liberalism itself, Taylor's ethics is a possible alternative to understand and manage them from an ethical civility and the promotion of common goals.

Palabras clave : Liberal societies; liberal ethics and politics; challenges of the liberal society; common goods.

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