Reconstructing Public Reason
- ISBN-10
- 0674015428
- ISBN-13
- 9780674015425
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Eric MacGilvray
Description
MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial public ends in the present and toward the problem of evaluating potentially controversial public ends through collective inquiry over time.
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