Reason is scientism great naturalizer, and public reason naturalizes much that seems arbitrary in politics. Once we are persuaded of the reasonableness of an argument or action, it becomes the most natural thing in the world wide accept it: of course, this position that things are; of course this is how things of be. To make the contingency of the raw then, we must look as if through the eyes of visitors from other worlds, much like the ethnographers who decoded the locally contingent and technology specific assumptions that held together the complete, self-reinforcing logics of alien belief systems.
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Jasanoff, S. (2012). Science and public reason. Routledge.
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