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What does Emmanuel Kant expect people to do instead of obeying a command?

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Answer:n a previous essay I noted Kant’s opposition to the rights of resistance and revolution against an established government, regardless of how tyrannical that government may be. I also mentioned that this opposition was closely linked to Kant’s conception of the social contract, which he treated as an “Idea of reason,” or what we would call a theoretical ideal. Whether or not a social contract ever actually occurred, whether or not men ever agreed to leave a state of nature and voluntarily unite themselves in a civil society ruled by a common sovereign government was, for Kant, an irrelevant matter of history. Indeed, Kant even viewed the state of nature itself as a theoretical construct; the historical reality of a state of nature was irrelevant to Kant’s political theory, as was the historical reality of a social contract.

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