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in reason - definition of in reason by the Online Dictionary from Datasegment.com (574 words) |
 | The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. |
| Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. |
| Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. |
| philosophy.com: Conversations with the Constitution#4: public reason (1410 words) |
| Rawls highlights the ideal of public reason in term of the arguments made by individual citizens or their representatives that are capable of being accepted by all members of the polity. |
| Reason is singular not plural, and it involves setting aside material self-interest, political partisanship and sectarian argument, since argument is about what is in the common interest of all. |
| Hence we have the distinction between reasons that are public and reasons that are nonpublic without necessarily equating these with reasons that are religious and reasons that are secular. |
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