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    The principle of the autonomy of reason (that each indivi... — Carmelics
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    The principle of the autonomy of reason (that each individual alone has the power and right to determine how to act in the state) collapses as a tenet of revolutionary ideology.

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    • 1.Rousseau's own social contract theory distinguishes individual will (volonté particulière) from the general will, which transcends individual rational autonomy.
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    • 2.When every individual claims sovereign rational authority over political arrangements, the result is not collective self-governance but the dissolution of any binding political obligation.
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    • 3.Kant's own political philosophy in 'Metaphysics of Morals' subordinates individual rational judgment to publicly established law, recognizing that autonomous reason cannot adjudicate its own political conflicts.
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    • 1.Burke's critique in 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' demonstrates that abstract rational principles, when applied universally by individuals, systematically destroy the inherited institutional knowledge embedded in constitutional traditions.
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    • 2.Hayek's later epistemological argument establishes that no individual rational agent possesses the distributed, tacit social knowledge necessary to ground legitimate political decisions, undermining the very competence the autonomy principle presupposes.
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    • 1.Politics essentially involves judgment.
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    • 2.Judgment depends on experience and expertise.
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    • 3.Only a few qualified individuals possess the requisite experience and expertise to determine the best constitution and laws.
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    Recognizing the role of judgment in politics means for Rehberg that another fundamental tenet of revolutionary ideology collapses: the principle of the autonomy of reason, i.e., the belief that each individual alone has the power and right to determine how to act in the state (15-17). Rousseau and Kant are right to claim that reason is inalienable, and that each individual is sovereign in having the power and right to ascertain general moral principles. But this does not give them, Rehberg argu
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