According to such a reformulation, a citizen may support only those coercive laws for which she has, and is prepared to offer, some spread of reasons that provide all affected parties with reason that they regard as plausible.
Rather than being liberating and progressive, reason has become dominating and controlling with the spread of instrumental reason.
When news spread of the reason for Gunn's shaven head, he received "support from the whole of the sporting world and the people of Norfolk".
Blocking collagenase activity with tetracyclines might stop the spread of cancer, reasoned oncologist Bruce Dezube of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
7. In that case, advocates of the DRR might require that citizens have a sufficiently wide spread of secular reasons, though there is room for considerable disagreement regarding how wide that spread must be.
It is not untrue to assert that Britain's innovations and global reach spread the light of reason to the remotest corners of the Earth.
The Enlightenment was cosmopolitan in its effort to spread the light of reason, but from the very beginning of the age there were nationalistic tendencies to be seen in varying shades.
Researchers into the life of Jesus in the 18th century, such as Hermann Reimarus and Karl Bahrdt, who portrayed Jesus as the agent of a secret enlightenment order that had set itself the goal of spreading the religion of reason in the world, were at the same time anti-Trinitarians and pioneers of the radical rationalistic criticism of dogma.
Reacting calmly, logically, and decisively — as well as spreading that message of reason — is a great asset in a time of panic.
The "ghetto" policy is in a sense an easy way out – easier to "live with our own people" and easier for local authorities perhaps to herd people together and submit to people's fears and prejudices than to encourage the spread of language and reason, and much, much easier than solving the problems of unemployment and poor housing which nurture the need for a scapegoat.
