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    Conflating the instrument of legitimacy (coercion) with i... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Kant's conception of legitimacy is linked to the justification of coercion.

    Conflating the instrument of legitimacy (coercion) with its ground (rational consent) misreads Kant's transcendental framework.

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    • 1.Kant's transcendental method distinguishes conditions of possibility from empirical manifestations; coercion is phenomenal while consent is transcendental.
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    • 2.Conflating instrument with ground obscures how rational consent generates legitimacy independent of whether coercion actually enforces compliance.
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    • 3.Kant's categorical imperative binds through reason alone; treating coercive enforcement as legitimacy's basis misses this noumenal source of obligation.
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    • 1.Distinguishing transcendental grounds from empirical instruments risks making legitimacy irrelevant to actual political authority and law enforcement.
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    • 2.Kant himself connects rational autonomy to external coercion through the concept of rightful coercion; they are not wholly separable in his system.
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    • 3.Without coercive mechanisms, rational consent remains aspirational rather than institutionally realized; conflating them reflects political reality, not misreading Kant.
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