Sentences with phrase «advancing public reason»

He held that it involved advancing public reason and moving people out from under the tutelage of others.

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Natural Law and Public Affairs: for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, a seminar bringing natural law reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public pPublic Affairs: for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, a seminar bringing natural law reasoning to bear on contemporary controversies in politics and public ppublic policy.

There are no doubt many significant reasons as to why this is the case but one aspect which needs to be considered is the extent to which some lobbying groups have advanced their views to influence thinking in public life.

An ethic of virtue and character — either in its more Christian form, as in the theology of Stanley Hauerwas (A Community of Character [University of Notre Dame Press, 19821), or its more secular form, as in Alasdair McIntyre's After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press, 1982)-- can never advance convincing reasons in public conversation.

Such is the kind of reasoning that needs to be advanced in the public square: not an argument from sectarian exceptionalism or the unique privileges of a private religious conscience, but arguments from the inalterable structure of things.

He told the audience of more than 50 people that public school systems across the United States have, for various reasons, failed to keep pace with advances in technology and the changing social and educational needs of youth, especially in inner - city neighborhoods.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

While Justice Stinson agreed with the Master that lawyers should be permitted to share resources for economic reasons, ``... those arrangements must take into account the need to preserve public confidence in the administration of justice by implementing in advance measures that will protect client confidentiality...»

This takes us to the essence of Justice Stratas» reasoning here which is that in legal proceedings (judicial reviews in particular) under our Westminister system of government, an attorney general enjoys a presumptive right to intervene on the basis that public rights are vested in the Crown and an attorney general enforces those rights and represents the public interest: «Giving Attorneys General a broader right to apply to intervene in order to advance the public interest — as Rule 110 (c) does — is consistent with these foundational principles and constitutional arrangements.