... was the oldest influence. Chapter I-Religious Influences ?Judaism Judaism embodied perfection in its religiously influenced political view. The Garden of Eden (chapters 2-3 of Genesis), made for the first (Jewish) people Adam and Eve, was perfect. After the fall, Judaism was eager for something better, but had not been polluted by false hopes in worldly perfection. Moses freed the Hebrew people from ... the end or supreme good of [his] City of God."" The Garden of Eden would have been politically perfect, but now we have slavery, private property, and coercive governments because Adam a...

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... was subject to God and his will and man was widely believed to be evil. Augustine believed that man had the choice to do good or evil, which stemmed from Adam defying God. He further believed that there were two cities; the "City of God," in which there existed no evil, and the "City of Man," which contained people who either ... ...

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... elimination of government-granted monopolies and internal tolls and tariffs, ideas that found their rallying cry in the famous slogan, laissez-faire, laissez-passer." The Physiocrats exerted a profound influence on Adam Smith, who had spent time in France in the 1760s and whose classic "The Wealth of Nations" embodied the Physiocratic attack on mercantilism and argued that nations get rich by ... ...

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... of a natural order underpinning human society is the cornerstone of liberal internationalism. For the clearest statement of this position, we must turn to the Scottish political economist and moral philosopher, Adam Smith. By pursuing their own self?interest, individuals are inadvertently promoting the public good. The mechanism, which intervenes between the motives of the individual and `ends' of society as a whole ... ...

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