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    It is not the case that Civil society cannot be simplified, rendered fully transparent, or governed by abstract rules alone

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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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    • 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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