The Prospects of Public Reason KU Leuven
The public reason project (PRP) recommends that basic public matters should be decided by public reasons alone, so that citizens’ plural non-public or private reasons will not endanger the unity of the society’s public reason, which is responsible for the stability of the basic structure of society. PRP (1) employs the strategy of insulation (of public reason from the potential infection of private reasons) and (2) accords priority ...