Traditional conservative's
attack libertarians for being attached to one solitary principle
(personal freedom is everything), but conservatism is also based on
one principle (an invisible God proscribed a transcendent
non-material moral order). Both are mistaken reductions.
But there is a reduction
that relates to the reality of human nature and human history which
was gradually understood over time by the evolutionary sciences, and
it is the biological origin of social behavior, which includes
religions.
The biological origin of
social behavior finds group selection at the origin of altruism
because being for others was and is successful in survival and
reproduction, and religion's developed to bond the successful moral
order of group selection, which doesn't suggest the first principles of traditional conservatism or libertarianism.
The group selection origin
of altruism conflicts with the first principle of libertarian
individual freedom, and the transcendent first principle of human equality under God, because the
altruism of being for others applies mainly to the survival and
reproductive success of kin and ethnic group who share the same gene
pool.
The biological origin of
social behavior points beyond traditional conservatism and libertarianism toward evolutionary conservatism, which
naturally suggests regionalism, localism, and an ethnopluralism of
ethnostates, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists
by some sort of federalism. And
in religion the biological origin of social behavior suggest that we
can indeed “immanentize
the eschaton”
(see theological materialism) and attain real supermaterial, not spiritual, Godhood within nature by way of material evolution. But we
also need to affirm
that evolution moves inevitably in a pattern, even though it has its
random elements, and the pattern has a discernible direction, in
spite of instances of stagnation and retreat, toward higher and
higher more effective living forms, all the way to Godhood.
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