ABSTRACT
In the recent literature connected with the liberal-communitarian debate, Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor (along with Michael Walzer and Michael Sandel) have come to be regarded as 'philosophical communitarians', although both have refused this label (see, e.g., Bell 1993, p. 17).1 Whatever the label, it is clear that Taylor and MacIntyre have a lot in common. They both hold that conceptions of justice and right always presuppose some particular conceptions of good. They also hold that a cultural or communal context plays a central role in the justification and interpretation of goods. They both view their teleological, hermeneutic or neo-Aristotelian position as lying somewhere between 'universalist' (Kantians, utilitarians) and 'relativist' (neo-Nietzscheans) moral theories.2 In this chapter I will not deal with the arguments between these different 'camps'. Instead, I will concentrate on the differences within the communitarian camp.
