Hm, cheers. That looks interesting. I suppose all Western culture had Christian influences. Though other elements, like the rejection of metaphysics, were explicitly secular.
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To sum it up enormously, all of this, including liberal and socialist discourse, has antecedents in theological (and concomitantly political) controversies. So, for instance, you see capitalism prefigured in the Franciscan theology of property.
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(Socialism as well, since all Marx really did was take the logical implications of Locke's labour theory of value and extrapolate them)
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Nothing in modern liberalism makes any sense at all unless viewed in the context of this intellectual tradition of proto-protestant monastic thought.
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The reason this is uncommon knowledge is because liberals tried to reground this on "naturalism" later when they graduated to full Protestantism as part of their ongoing project of favouring throne over altar.
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