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The paper relates that "Fusions" begins with an overview of Taylor's work and world view, describing it as an integration of the ideals of communitarianism, but open to a broader definition of a continuum between communitarianism and liberalism which is not limited to mainstream ideologies. The paper looks at how the author writes that "Taylor does not appreciate the label of communitarian, as it tends to be a larger ideology that contains many conflicting ideas" (Unknown 2). The paper asserts that the author's arguments are drawn largely from a work on Taylor's life written by Ruth Abbey, but does not consider other perceptions of his worldview, including the works of Taylor himself.

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"This paper serves to analyze the arguments put forth in the paper, "Charles Taylor's Liberalism: A "Fusion of Horizons" (in this paper referred to heretoforth as "Fusions") and critically ascertain the validity of these arguments with respect to the literature. "Fusions" begins with an overview of Taylor's work and world view, describing it as an integration of the ideals of communitarianism, but open to a broader definition of a continuum between communitarianism and liberalism which is not limited to mainstream ideologies. The author writes that "Taylor does not appreciate the label of communitarian, as it...""

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