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    Supports→The principle of the autonomy of reason (that each individual alone has the power and right to determine how to act in the state) collapses as a tenet of revolutionary ideology.

    Kant's own political philosophy in 'Metaphysics of Morals' subordinates individual rational judgment to publicly established law, recognizing that autonomous reason cannot adjudicate its own political conflicts.

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    Key Terms

    Adjudicate(describing what functionalism can or cannot do regarding the disagreement)
    To judge, decide, or settle a dispute between two competing views.
    Autonomous reason(as the capacity Kant believed individuals possess)
    The idea that humans have the ability to think and make decisions for themselves based on logic, without being told what to do by others.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Subordinates(the criticism being made)
    In this context, it means Heidegger treats interpretive method as less important than, or dependent on, his theories about being.

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    metaphysics of morals(One of the two kinds of metaphysics Kant takes to be possible.)
    A new practical science, grounded in moral rather than theoretical reasoning, that replaces transcendent metaphysics.
    political philosophy(Oakeshott's characterization of properly philosophical political inquiry)
    Philosophical inquiry that examines the presuppositions of political activity, as distinct from political activity itself

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