Download or read book Reconstructing Public Reason written by Eric MacGilvray and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial public ends in the present and toward the problem of evaluating potentially controversial public ends through collective inquiry over time.