Sentence examples for reasonable citizen from inspiring English sources
John Rawls tried to resolve this challenge by suggesting that when we engage in politics, we should use "public reason" - lines of argument that would make sense to any reasonable citizen.
"I would think any reasonable citizen would answer," he observed.
It's shameful because I don't think any reasonable citizen can.
Looking back at the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, wouldn't a reasonable citizen expect the National Security Agency to have intercepted the 9/11 terrorists communicating to anyone on foreign soil to prevent those horrendous acts?
In 1977, three years after state inmates filed a suit claiming their living conditions were unconstitutional, Judge Pettine took an unannounced tour of the prison and then ruled that inmates were living among rats and cockroaches in conditions that would "shock the conscience of any reasonable citizen".
In an overlapping consensus each reasonable citizen affirms this common "module" from within her own perspective.
Stability is sometimes moralized to mean that stability is only of the valuable sort when it is based on "the right reasons" or what reasonable citizens would endorse.
One difficulty lies in Habermas's assumption that in public discourse over controversial political issues, citizens can separate the moral constraints on acceptable solutions, presumably open to general consensus, from ethical-political and pragmatic considerations, over which reasonable citizens may reasonably disagree.
On Rawls's view, and other similar views, citizens and public officials should generally refrain from relying on ideas or reasons that other reasonable citizens reject, and must always show how the political positions they support can be justified by appeal to shared political values.
For there appear to be reasonable citizens who have no good reason from their own perspective to affirm it.
Reasonable citizens do not complain that Holocaust deniers, champions of totalitarianism or defenders of lynching are denied recognition and barred from convention microphones.
