Useful to everyone who prefers order to chaos, “us” to &#&t20;2hem8#8221; – in other words useful to everyone who’s got anything left to lose, or who is afraid for self or others. The liberal faith is that it can all be held together and advanced as pure reason. Even the libertarian and anarchistic extremes embody this notion, though usually flowing from alternative premises. The arguably more radical thought in critical respects and implications more conservative notion is that we never get to public reason, or sustain it, except in the context of a much greater, deeper, and more complex web of commitments.
Useful to everyone who prefers order to chaos, “us” to &#&t20;2hem8#8221; – in other words useful to everyone who’s got anything left to lose, or who is afraid for self or others. The liberal faith is that it can all be held together and advanced as pure reason. Even the libertarian and anarchistic extremes embody this notion, though usually flowing from alternative premises. The arguably more radical thought in critical respects and implications more conservative notion is that we never get to public reason, or sustain it, except in the context of a much greater, deeper, and more complex web of commitments.