Although the reader may not agree with all of Mr. Toobin's opinions, his arguments, like any good lawyer's, are shrewdly reasoned and grounded in lots of persuasive citations.
An early critic of Williams is E. J. Bond in his book Reason and Value (1983) where he urges, echoing Frankena's earlier critique of internalism, that Williams' argument is undermined if we distinguish clearly between what he calls motivating reasons and grounding reasons.
Knowing which groups in South Korea, on what grounds and reason, acclaimed or clung to anticommunism after the collapse of Japanese colonial rule may be the first step in understanding South Korea's anticommunism.
According to a familiar skeptical argument, all knowledge must be grounded in good reasons, and this threatens to require an infinite (and impossible) regress of reasons.
After all, if all reasons are grounded on something arbitrary, then no one's principles rest on any firmer foundation than anyone else's.
A pluralist will conclude instead that morality is irreducibly plural some moral reasons are grounded on justifiability, but others are grounded directly on suffering or pleasure.
That conclusion breaks entirely new First Amendment ground and, for that reason alone, is worthy of Supreme Court review.
This good fit is practically useful, but intellectually not very satisfactory, because the familiar or Forward Weibull distribution is a purely empirical construct and there have seemed to be no reasons, grounded in either atmospheric physics or probability theory, why wind speeds should conform to this model.
Priority setting decisions should be based on reasons that are grounded in clear value choices, and those reasons should be made explicit.
Lincoln believed that like a mathematician, leaders must aggressively reason toward common ground and invite an adversary into a common intellectual space.
