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    The charge of paternalism does not refute cosmopolitanism... — Carmelics
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    The charge of paternalism does not refute cosmopolitanism as an ideal but only rejects certain limited instantiations of it

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    • 1.The objections regarding imperialism and paternalism are largely internal to cosmopolitan theory
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    • 2.These objections challenge specific implementations of cosmopolitanism rather than the cosmopolitan ideal itself
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    • 1.When paternalism is structurally entailed by a theory's core commitments, it cannot be dismissed as a mere implementation failure.
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    • 2.Cosmopolitanism's foundational claim that universal reason overrides local self-determination systematically licenses paternalistic intervention.
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    • 3.A theory whose ideal necessarily generates paternalistic structures is itself refuted by the paternalism objection, not merely its applications.
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    • 1.Kant's own cosmopolitan framework in 'Toward Perpetual Peace' required external enforcement mechanisms that presuppose hierarchical authority over sovereign peoples.
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    • 2.The distinction between an ideal and its instantiations collapses when no non-paternalistic instantiation has ever been coherently specified in the literature.
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    Another common objection to cosmopolitanism associates it with imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism. Some cosmopolitans, despite taking themselves to be opposed to imperialism, colonialism, and paternalism, are charged with focusing too narrowly on the responsibilities (and perspectives) of the affluent while conceiving of those living in poverty mainly as the passive recipients of their “aid.” Such focus indeed shows little sensitivity to questions of epistemic justice and to the wide rang
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