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    The first objection to Kant's loose league lacks legitimacy. — Carmelics
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    The first objection to Kant's loose league lacks legitimacy.

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    • 1.Kant's Perpetual Peace explicitly frames the foedus pacificum as a permanent voluntary association, not a transitional structure toward coercive federation.
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    • 2.Treating a completed normative proposal as merely instrumental undermines the internal logic Kant assigns to republican sovereignty in The Metaphysics of Morals.
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    • 3.The 'first step' reinterpretation is exegetically revisionist and lacks direct textual support in Kant's cosmopolitan legal writings.
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    • 1.Rawls's Law of Peoples independently vindicates the loose league model as normatively sufficient for international order without requiring world government.
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    • 2.If a non-coercive league can satisfy the requirements of public reason among peoples, the legitimacy objection targeting Kant's model loses its critical force.
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    • 3.The objection's assumption that legitimacy requires enforcement authority presupposes a statist conception of law that cosmopolitan theory specifically contests.
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    • 1.More recent interpretations have questioned the legitimacy of the first objection.
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    • 2.Kant can be read as advocating the loose league as a first step toward a stronger federation, making his position internally consistent.
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    Especially the first objection has been repeated ever since, but more recent interpretations have questioned its legitimacy (Kleingeld 2004, 2012), arguing that Kant can also be read as advocating the loose league as a first step on the road toward a federation with coercive powers. Because joining this stronger form of federation should be a voluntary decision on the part of the peoples involved, to honor their political autonomy, the strong federation is not a matter of coercive international
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