Giamarelos, S; (2015) Genealogies of modernity and the limits of moral realism in the works of Bernard Williams and Charles Taylor [in Greek: Γενεαλογίες της νεωτερικότητας και οριοθετήσεις του ηθικού ρεαλισμού στα έργα των Bernard Williams και Charles Taylor]. Gavagai , 1 pp. 72-87.

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Starting off from similar critiques of modernity and ‘the peculiar institution’ of morality, Bernard Williams and Charles Taylor nonetheless went on to develop considerably different philosophical approaches to moral realism. Focusing on their genealogical accounts of modern morality through a close reading of their major works of the 1980s (Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy and Sources of the Self), this paper attempts to illuminate their philosophical points of agreement, as well as divergence. The originally subtle differences of their historical accounts are thus most clearly elucidated only when they both have to enter the philosophical territory of questions concerning the status of moral reality, and the special relation of philosophy to ethics and history.

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