The Epistemological Foundation of Liberty

The epistemological foundation of liberty is empiricism which identifies and investigates natural law and its implications. Natural law is discovered by observation. If six different scientists conduct the same controlled experiment three days in succession, they achieve eighteen results...all of which are the same. Why is this so? It must be because rules or laws are in place dictating what the results must be. If this were not the case the scientists would have arrived at eighteen different answers.... all random.


Natural law then exists. Rules exist. The first observation which follows from this is that all mankind are one. There is an unity of man. All mankind are of the same degree. Indeed this is supported by modern science which can demonstrate that there is less genetic differentiation in any two human beings on the planet than the genetic differentiation between any two chimpanzees in the same social group in west Africa.

Since all mankind are of the same degree, none is endowed with the right of dominion, and none endowed with the obligation of subjection. Children are not born with the word 'slave' or 'ruler' emblazoned on their foreheads. Liberty then, acknowledges and acts upon the unity of man. All forms of statism implicitly deny the unity of man and divide man into at least two categories, those endowed with the right to dominion, and those endowed with the obligation of servitude. The only defense of this viewpoint is some sort of rationalism providing knowledge anterior to observation and experience. This makes all forms of statism essentially anti-intellectual.

This anti-intellectualism is openly admitted: "We are going to try the power of persuasion first, and if that does not work we are going to use the persuasion of power." This statement of administration representatives is a tacit admission of an anti-intellectual approach.

The sciences advance to the extent that they continue to adhere to empirical science. To the extent that the sciences embrace rationalism of any sort...as in climate science....they pursue an anti-intellectual agenda. The humanities have long abandoned empiricism and embraced rationalism. This aspect of the modern human experience suggests that we are in a post-enlightenment world....which if it were to continue and expand might resolve itself into the total loss of all of the knowledge of man accumulated over the past two millenia.

All of human rights are based then on the idea of Natural Law and the Unity of Man, and all alternative views are out of touch with the physical universe as it is...and instead embrace Forms and Universals of the mind as having ontological certitude. The Progressive modern movement embraces just exactly this sort of 'Form' or 'Universal' in it adherence to the idea of the continuous betterment of man in an ever larger more inclusive synthesis. Their God is Inclusive Diversity.

They are the Helpers of God. This is a dubious idea at best suggesting that their God is a dependent Being in desperate need of help without which He might fail.

They are actively engaged as the 'Saviors of Mankind' redeeming him from the selfishness and wickedness of self-interest....and to accomplish this greater good appoint themselves the leaders, feeders, educators and most of all punishers of the ignorant masses.

For these reasons, all types of statism are intellectually vacant.