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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.
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