Topic: Student’s Name: Name of Institution: Due Date: Charles Taylor Taylor in his work “the politics of recognition” tried to offer an extensive philosophical justification for why groups in the western societies were demanding for public acknowledgement of their specific identities based on ethnicity, race, and gender. Taylor tried to explore the idea that to affirm equal dignity of groups, they must acknowledge their cultures. He justified that identities of individuals are dialogically and socially constructed. This explains the reason recognition is vital because it indicates how identity and its politics are significant for controlling and minimizing cases of group conflicts. This paper explains that Taylor’s claim is right when he justifies that while people should give acknowledgment and respect to what are universal human characteristics; everyone has own unique identity, which should be recognized and respected. However, this paper argues that Taylor erred by encouraging minority groups to abandon their particularity to comply with expectations and principles of dominant culture. Human identity is formed by the membership of a particular cultural group, and the sense of individual‘s self-worth is connected with the view that individuals are linked to their cultural groups (Hoffman and Graham 17). In this way, Taylor gives