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    Civil society cannot be simplified, rendered fully transp... — Carmelics
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    Civil society cannot be simplified, rendered fully transparent, or governed by abstract rules alone

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.Habermas's theory of communicative action shows that legitimate governance emerges from intersubjective discourse, not algorithmic rule-application.
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    • 2.Discourse ethics requires context-sensitive interpretation of norms, meaning abstract rules underdetermine outcomes in complex social situations.
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    • 3.The lifeworld—shared background understandings—cannot be fully colonized by system rationality without producing legitimation crises.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox demonstrates that no rule contains the conditions for its own application, requiring judgment irreducible to rules.
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    • 2.Aristotelian phronesis is the faculty of practical wisdom that perceives morally salient particulars that universal principles necessarily leave underdetermined.
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    • 1.Civil society consists of countless ineffable links between individuals
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    • 2.The relationship of individuals to authority is largely ineffable
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    • 3.Sound political judgement is the product of experience, not abstract reasoning
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    Of the disagreements between Price and Wollstonecraft, on the one hand, and Burke, on the other, one of the deepest was over their respective view of the nature of civil society and of political power in general. The two friends believed that government, the rule of law, and all human relations could be simplified, explicated, and rendered transparent, and both were convinced that this was the task ahead for all lovers of liberty. For Burke, on the contrary, civil society consisted of countless
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