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    It is not the case that The cosmopolitan ideal should be a worldwide republic of fraternal, non-authoritarian 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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    • 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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