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Practical Reasoning is not a matter of descending from the Olympian heights of impartial, objective, faceless rationality into the sobering valley of reality via the particularities of our lives. The points of departure for practical reasoning are our lived experiences; and the backdrop against which we have all such experiences is a community. Thus, what we take for granted and what we consider to be either reasonable or plausible is determined not in the abstract but in the context of a community. This is so even when community standards themselves are being rejected. For if nothing else, rejected standards serve as the baseline for what is deemed unacceptable. On this much Professor Hauerwas and I are in complete agreement.
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Thomas, L. (1988). Christianity in a Social Context: Practical Reasoning and Forgiveness. In: Brody, B.A. (eds) Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2715-5_12
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