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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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