Private reason means entitlement to difference rather than physical privacy

Evidence

Private reason is not the same as private space; it is the entitlement to difference, the immunity from the force of public reason. So theoretical and practical problems remain that call for each of these categories to be defined. What makes a discourse and an action “religious” or “secular”? — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 43

Categorization

• DEFINE: Useful distinction: ‘private reason’ is an entitlement/immunity, not a spatial concept.
• XREF: connects to: Purely relational privacy leaves no entity whose autonomy is protected — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 562; The right to privacy shifted from protecting marriage to protecting individual choice — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1272