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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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