This probably won't be popular but I'll say it anyway.
This is the material endpoint of Liberalism and the Enlightenment. Classical Liberalism.
Hobbes and Locke begin with a false anthropology. That man begins in a 'state of nature' where he is completely autonomous but at the throat of every other man.
Lock's notion of freedom involves each pursuing their own private interest in their own private sphere, each man with his own fenced off piece of property. Man is freed therefore by fencing himself in against the ever-present state of war.
Is it any wonder that when you start with these assumptions that our endpoint is isolated, atomized individuals, fenced IN their private sphere?
Liberalism is Christian heresy. The virtues we attribute to classical Liberalism are, in fact, the virtues of Christianity that has now nearly left the system. What is left over are the corruptions of the heresy.
This probably won't be popular but I'll say it anyway.
This is the material endpoint of Liberalism and the Enlightenment. Classical Liberalism.
Hobbes and Locke begin with a false anthropology. That man begins in a 'state of nature' where he is completely autonomous but at the throat of every other man.
Lock's notion of freedom involves each pursuing their own private interest in their own private sphere, each man with his own fenced off piece of property. Man is freed therefore by fencing himself in against the ever-present state of war.
Is it any wonder that when you start with these assumptions that our endpoint is isolated, atomized individuals, fenced IN their private sphere?
Liberalism is Christian heresy. The virtues we attribute to classical Liberalism are, in fact, the virtues of Christianity that has now nearly left the system. What is left over are the corruptions of the heresy.