Liberalism, Bio-liberalism and Revitalized Conservatism?

Christianity seems to have helped initiate classical liberalism so that Christianity could pursue its “equality of man” and the “rights of man.” (Pierre Manent, Modern Age, Summer 2010) Christianity needed government to protect this equality for the individual and so liberalism developed in philosophy in the 17^th century.

Aside from the equality of the Spirit Within all life, what if men or individuals are not equal? What if equality is not natural? Does this call into question the Christian and Liberal view of human nature?

I suggest that we can retain the liberal idea of government protecting freedoms but we need to shift the emphasis to protecting groups, small states, or ethnostates rather than merely protecting individual freedom. This does not enslave individuals or take us back to feudalism, it places individuals within groups, as true human nature has always done. Small states affirm the new “rights of man.” Government retains the liberal task of protecting this group freedom and discourages imperialism and supremacy.

This bio-liberal view, if I can call it that, takes into account the sociobiological view of human nature, which sees men as naturally kin-centered, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and bio-liberalism protects this as the natural freedom, which best fits human nature.

A revolution is not necessary to supplant liberalism, but liberalism needs to be supplemented with sociobiology. Even the original Constitution of the United States saw the wisdom of protecting small independent states.  With this bio-liberal view, Liberalism and Conservatism may be synthesized into a Revitalized Conservatism.