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    Napoleon's conquest of Europe was a world-historical event that advanced the rational bureaucratic state.

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    • 1.World-historical events are those that bring about the final, full stage of history and human freedom.
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    • 2.Napoleon's conquests established the terms of the rational bureaucratic state across Europe.
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    • 1.Tolstoy argued in War and Peace that great men are retrospective fictions imposed on diffuse, ungovernable historical forces.
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    • 2.If Napoleon's conquests resulted from aggregate social forces rather than singular agency, attributing rational state-building to him commits the great man fallacy.
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    • 3.A conclusion resting on a false attribution of historical causation cannot ground a defensible claim about world-historical progress.
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    • 1.Hegel's 'world-historical individual' advances Spirit unwittingly, making Napoleon an instrument rather than an agent of rational freedom.
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    • 2.An instrument of historical forces cannot be credited as the author of the rational state he merely occasions.
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    Hegel’s philosophy of history is perhaps the most fully developed philosophical theory of history that attempts to discover meaning or direction in history (1824a, 1824b, 1857). Hegel regards history as an intelligible process moving towards a specific condition—the realization of human freedom. “The question at issue is therefore the ultimate end of mankind, the end which the spirit sets itself in the world” (1857: 63). Hegel incorporates a deeper historicism into his philosophical theories tha
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