The universal ‘Reason’ touted by Western natural-law philosophers was an early casualty of the snapping of tradition’s last threads. Born in the rubble of postmodernity, contemporary critics of liberalism note that Reason cannot be the judge that rules impartially from outside discourse. It is part of the discourse, and any transcendent throne claimed for it is a stealthy grab for power. Stanley Fish observed that Reason(s) ‘always come from somewhere,’ and it is clear that once you have stepped outside of a tradition or leveled its authority, you cannot in fairness invoke ‘Reason’ without
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