Sentences with phrase «liberal public reason»

Moreover, if liberalism is indeed absolute, so that there is no longer any outside, then a contest of rights is really the only ground on which liberal public reason will permit itself to be publicly engaged.

To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed by liberal public reason is to accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.

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Broadly speaking, we may characterize the civic project of American Christianity as the attempt to harmonize Christianity and liberal order and to anchor American public philosophy in the substance of Protestant morality, Catholic social teaching, or some version of natural law that might qualify as public reason.

There are good liberal, secular reasons for incorporating the serious study of religion into the curriculum of public schools.

It is the liberal vision in politics which seeks a society that will protect reason in both personal and public life.

Though there are any number of reasons for people across the political spectrum to lament the entry of Clegg's Liberal Democrats into Coalition with the Conservatives, Clegg has been vindicated in one key respect; that of transforming the public's perceptions of coalition government.

There is no liberal reason why those who deliver public services must always work directly for the government - so long as we are absolutely clear about the principles under which those services operate.»

Whatever the reason, according to a 2016 study from the Pew Research Center, 89 % of the public supports expanding our solar power efforts, including 83 % of those who identify as conservative Republicans and 97 % of liberal Democrats.

Today, the Common Core is not only on the public radar, but the focus of a growing nationwide resistance from an unusual coalition of right - wingers, liberals, teachers, and parents, for a variety of very different reasons.

Outspoken liberal politicians, including some aspiring Presidential candidates, like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, want to divest their respective public pension funds from fossil fuel companies for ideological reasons, while the vast majority of fund managers from both sides of the aisle disagree.

It happens to land at a public university, otherwise known as a liberal think tank that influences government policy, and it seems me pointing this out to you bothers you for some reason.

Near - perpetual majority Liberal governments should be alarming to the legal profession, as to the general public, for a number of reasons.