Conceptual Overreach Threatens the Quality of Public Reason – John Tasioulas | Aeon Essays
Keeping a concept in good shape requires an attentiveness to its history, the valuable role it plays, and how it might be adapted to changing circumstances, always bearing in mind that it operates within an evolving network of other concepts, each of which makes its own special contribution.
aeon.co • Conceptual Overreach Threatens the Quality of Public Reason – John Tasioulas | Aeon Essays
Yes and the tension in using a concept strings between its descriptive use and what we think it ought to mean. Like “democracy” meaning anything but total suffrage.