Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should
go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, the
book presents objections to the most common response given by
contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity
of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to
release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating
a particular set of reasons from the general pool of reasons and
assigning the former systematic priority over all other reasons. If
those attempts succeed, public agents should not reason
comprehensively, taking into account all reasons and weighing them
against one another. Some reasons would be excluded from
decision-making by kind.
That strategy is apparent both in Rawlsa (TM) claim that reasons
concerning the right are systematically prior to reasons concerning
the good and in Raza (TM)s claim that pre-emptive reasons are
systematically prior to first-order reasons. The same strategy is
also instantiated by certain arguments for the procedural value of
law, such as Jeremy Waldrona (TM)s. In the book, each of those
arguments for the insulation of reasons is objected to in order to
defend the thesis the reasoning by public agents must always be as
comprehensive as possible.
In order to reach that conclusion a particular picture of public
decision-making in needed. That picture in provided by the
comparison between the use of reasons in public and private
decision-making which is carried out in the first two chapters of
the book. That comparison brings to light peculiar features of
public decision-making that imply the need for public agents to
reason comprehensively before deciding. Theremaining chapters
object to those arguments mentioned above which aim at justifying
the exclusion of certain reasons from public agenta (TM)s
decision-making.
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