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    A state can be regarded as truly organised only when the ... — Carmelics
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    A state can be regarded as truly organised only when the universal is fully linked with the complete freedom of particularity and the well-being of individuals.

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    • 1.The essence of the modern state is that the universal should be linked with the complete freedom of particularity and the well-being of individuals.
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    • 2.Particular individuals must retain their rights of personal knowledge and volition.
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    • 3.A truly organised state requires both the universal moment and the moment of particular freedom to be present in full measure.
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    • 1.Rousseau's general will requires individuals to subordinate particular interests to the common good, making full particular freedom incompatible with genuine political unity.
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    • 2.When particular well-being conflicts with universal norms, privileging both simultaneously produces not harmony but irresolvable institutional contradiction.
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    • 1.Burke argued that stable political order depends on inherited obligations and organic tradition, not the systematic fulfillment of individual freedom and well-being.
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    • 2.A state organized around maximizing particular freedom undermines the pre-political attachments and deference to authority that make collective order possible at all.
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    The essence of the modern state is that the universal should be linked with the complete freedom of particularity and the well-being of individuals…the personal knowledge and volition of the particular individuals who must retain their rights…Only when both moments are present in full measure can the state be regarded as…truly organised. (Hegel 1821: §260)
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