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    It is not the case that Human psychology and the natural environment, rather than human reason, could have driven the human race forward toward a peaceful federation.

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    • 1.Hobbes demonstrated that the same competitive psychology that produces associations equally produces cycles of conquest and war rather than stable confederations.
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    • 2.Without rational deliberation as a corrective mechanism, natural psychological drives toward dominance systematically undermine rather than consolidate peaceful interstate order.
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    • 3.Historical empires—Assyrian, Mongol, Roman—show that psychological and environmental pressures more reliably produce hegemonic subjugation than federated peace.
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    • 1.Rousseau argued that natural human psychology, left undisturbed, produces isolated contentment rather than the competitive sociality that generates political institutions.
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    • 2.The 'unsociable sociability' Kant describes is itself a product of contingent historical civilizational pressures, not a fixed psychological universal sufficient to guarantee republican federation.
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    • 1.Humans are social because they cannot develop their capabilities in isolation.
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    • 2.Humans are unsocial because they always want to get their own way.
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    • 3.These opposing characteristics lead humans to form associations in which all vie for status.
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