Thompson, Dennis2020-04-08Thompson. Dennis F. 2004. Public Reason and Precluded Reasons. Fordham Law Review 72, no. 5: 2073-2088.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42658242Public reason seems an odd idea. Re-fraining from telling the whole truth—deliberately ignoring reasons that are relevant to reaching a well-grounded decision—seems more like a vice than a virtue. It is like swearing to tell the partial truth, and nothing but the partial truth. Yet for Rawls, something like this oath is a duty of all citizens—a “moral ... duty of civility.”en-USJournal Article2018-06-1120042020-04-08