Arab scholarship post-1967 marks Arab thought with diversity and profundity, which the previous projects of the avant-gardists of the Nahda till then lacked. The tendencies of socialists-Marxists, liberals, secularists, salafis, or “seculareligionists” have merged at times and diverged at others, depending on the national, regional and international affairs. At the heart of the debate of these tendencies stands the question of ethics as the dividing line. Contemporary Moroccan thought has experienced the debates the general Arab thought has raised. Two of its major philosophers are also widely read in the Arab world, i.e. Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1935-2010) and Taha Abderrahmane (d. 1944). Through his famous Critique of Arab Reason (in four volumes) al-Jabri presented Arab ethical mind in a form that stirred controversy and disapproval among scholars. Taha Abderrahmane built his project partly as a reply to, or critique of, al-Jabri’s overall project of reform, and has made of (religious) ethics the heart of his reform project, which he calls, in his late works, “trusteeship paradigm” or “trusteeship critique.” This paper-presentation tries to outline the major differences between the reform projects of the two Arab philosophers. It argues that while al-Jabri was critical of the West he still worked within its modern paradigm of the secular/religious that he saw the Arab tradition has always experienced, though in merged and intertwining forms that he attempted to dissect and re-structure. As to Abderrahmane, he sees that this forced Western division does not stand when applied to the Arab-Islamic tradition, which he examines wholly, and not reductively, as he accuses al-Jabri of doing. Abderrahmane proposes that trusteeship paradigm does not only serve for reforming the Arab world but for reforming Western modernity as well; he applies his trusteeship critique to politics, religion, the family, the individual, medical sciences, and the media. Unlike the liberals and seculars, and unlike conservative religionists, or Islamic leftism, Abderrahmane appears to have built a full-fledged theory of ethics that is unprecedented in Arab thought, a new paradigm that deserves to be examined comparatively.