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    The cosmopolitan ideal should be a worldwide republic of ... — Carmelics
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    The cosmopolitan ideal should be a worldwide republic of fraternal, non-authoritarian republics

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    • 1.The ideal state should not involve coercion
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    • 2.A cosmopolitan order composed of ideal states would therefore also be free of coercion
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    • 3.A non-coercive cosmopolitan order takes the form of fraternal republics
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    • 1.Kant's own cosmopolitan argument concludes in a voluntary federation of states, not a world republic, precisely because a world republic risks despotism.
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    • 2.A worldwide republic concentrates coercive authority at a scale that makes accountability and exit rights structurally impossible.
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    • 3.The argument's inference from non-coercive ideal states to a non-coercive cosmopolitan order ignores emergent coercive dynamics at the supranational level.
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    • 1.Hegel argues that ethical life requires particular communities with shared histories; a fraternal world republic presupposes a global Sittlichkeit that does not and cannot exist.
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    • 2.Without a shared cultural and institutional substrate, cosmopolitan republican institutions lack the legitimacy conditions necessary for non-authoritarian governance.
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    Some critics argued in response that Kant’s position was inconsistent, because on their view, the only way to fully overcome the state of nature among states was for the latter to enter into a federative union with coercive powers. The early Fichte transformed the concept of sovereignty in the process, by conceiving it as layered, and this enabled them to argue that states ought to transfer part of their sovereignty to the federal level, but only that part that concerns their external relations
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