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    It is not the case that The charge of paternalism does not refute cosmopolitanism as an ideal but only rejects certain limited instantiations of it

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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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    • 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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