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    It is not the case that Napoleon's conquest of Europe was a world-historical event that advanced the rational bureaucratic state.

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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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    • 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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