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    Reconciling individual freedom with state authority is ne... — Carmelics
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    Reconciling individual freedom with state authority is necessary.

    Rights & LibertySocial Contract
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    • 1.Human society has evolved such that individuals can no longer supply their needs through their own unaided efforts.
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    • 2.Individuals must depend on the cooperation of others to meet their needs.
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    • 1.Voluntary association and mutual aid—not state authority—can satisfy cooperative needs without coercive political obligation.
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    • 2.Kropotkin and Proudhon demonstrate that anarchist mutual aid societies historically met collective needs more effectively than state institutions.
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    • 3.If cooperation can be achieved without state authority, reconciling freedom with that authority is unnecessary rather than necessary.
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    • 1.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that any state beyond a minimal night-watchman state violates individual rights without consent.
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    • 2.Rousseau's general will conflates the conditions for social survival with a normative obligation to subordinate individual liberty to collective authority.
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    • 3.Logical necessity requires that no alternative exist, but stateless or minimal-state arrangements refute the claim's universality.
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    In The Social Contract, Rousseau sets out to answer what he takes to be the fundamental question of politics, the reconciliation of the freedom of the individual with the authority of the state. This reconciliation is necessary because human society has evolved to a point where individuals can no longer supply their needs through their own unaided efforts, but rather must depend on the co-operation of others. The process whereby human needs expand and interdependence deepens is set out in the Di
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