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The best form of government can be determined by experien... — Carmelics

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The best form of government can be determined by experience alone.

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1.Reason by itself cannot determine which specific laws or constitutions are best.
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2.Determining the best government requires seeing which laws have the greatest utility under specific circumstances.
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1.Experience requires interpretation through prior normative principles to determine which outcomes count as governmental 'success' or 'failure'.
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2.Without rational criteria external to experience, empirical observation of governance cannot distinguish better from worse constitutional arrangements.
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1.Kant's critical philosophy demonstrates that pure empiricism cannot ground prescriptive claims, only descriptive regularities about what has occurred.
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2.A claim about the 'best' form of government is irreducibly normative and cannot be derived from historical facts alone without committing the is-ought fallacy Hume identified.
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For Rehberg, the Revolution was a failed experiment in idealism, a misguided attempt by French radicals to recreate society and state according to the principles of reason. There lay a fundamental fallacy behind this experiment: the belief that the principles of reason are guidelines for concrete political practice, that they are blueprints to reconstruct all society and the state. It was this belief, Rehberg argues, that sanctioned the frenzy of destruction behind the Revolution, the eagernes

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