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    Institutions embody a form of collective reason superior ... — Carmelics
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    Institutions embody a form of collective reason superior to individual reason

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    • 1.Institutions result from trial and error
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    • 2.Institutions embody accumulated historical experience
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    • 3.No single person can reproduce in thought the complex train of experiences and decisions that produced existing institutions
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    • 1.Institutions can encode and perpetuate systematic biases, injustices, and errors rather than filtering them out through trial and error.
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    • 2.Hegel's 'cunning of reason' and Rawls's 'veil of ignorance' both demonstrate that legitimate collective reason requires procedural fairness, not mere historical persistence.
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    • 3.An institution's survival is explained by power dynamics and path dependence as plausibly as by functional superiority, making longevity epistemically unreliable.
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    • 1.Popper's critical rationalism holds that genuine rationality requires falsifiability and open critique, conditions that entrenched institutions structurally resist.
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    • 2.Burke's argument proves only that institutions encode complexity, not that the encoded content is epistemically superior to deliberate individual or collective reasoning.
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    A fundamental question is how far the “prejudice” that Burke advocates is non-rational. Was he against reason, or just against abstract reason? Did he supplant individual with collective reason? For Cobban, Burke was “a philosopher of unreason in the great age of Reason” (Cobban 1960: 75). A subtler view is that for him, individual reason cannot discern fully how social and political institutions work; it cannot see the entire process of communal adaptation, or understand by itself the principle
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