Natural Capitalism

Naturalism and Capitalism are Like a Hand-in-Glove In the Export of Individual Liberty "Ever since [Bush speechwriter Michael] Gerson wrote for Bush the words “There is another destructive mindset: the idea that if government would only get out of the way, all our problems would be solved. An approach with no higher goal, no nobler purpose than ‘Leave us alone,’” the Republican party has been eagerly embracing openhanded government." http://us.mc590.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage;_ylt=Am9Gzb3X1ZB_SKxLI.suGENjk70X?mi d=1_4359_AP5kxEIAAMyJSMFMLAlD4WQJs48&fid=Inbox&sort=date&order=down&startMid=0&.ra nd=1553591601&da=0 Naturalism in economics requires capitalism. "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights..." wrote Ayn Rand. "The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force." from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal Now, coming from Rand, there are people who will automatically discount this idea of equating "freedom" with "capitalism," especially those who don't see the connection Rand or not. But, the initiation of force, as opposed to its use in self-defence, can never be justified, and thus is never moral. Man lives by reason alone, or he has no justification for anything, objectively speaking. Then, too, there are those who claim that morals are relative, whatever that means. Actually, it means whatever its proponent wants it to mean; whereas objective morals are based in the nature of Man as the "rational animal," with the objective standards for his existence being those of "qua Man." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/qua "Capitalism and Freedom is a book by Milton Friedman originally published in 1962 which discusses the role of economic capitalism in liberal society. [ ] Friedman makes the case for economic freedom as a precondition for political freedom. He defines liberal in European Enlightenment terms, contrasting with an American usage that he believes has been corrupted since the Great Depression. " [italics added] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Freedom "[Adam] Smith's great revelation was that political freedom would most likely emerge and persist under conditions of economic freedom, what we now call capitalism. Our democratic system as defined in our Constitution incorporated respect for this economic system.

"More than the export of democracy, it is the export of entrepreneurial capitalism that can produce a new birth of peace and freedom around our globe. Entrepreneurial capitalism is based on individual invention, and because wealth comes from one's own initiative, it advances human dignity. "And here is the good news. Virtually every country, whatever its political system, wants to embrace it. They have seen the success of the American economy. "It has been said that when goods cross borders, armies don't. Today, China and India are the world's two largest countries racing toward entrepreneurial capitalism. They are the example and test of that thesis. Several decades ago, their armies clashed. Now no one talks of war, only of their economic emergence. Capitalism has promoted peace and, in China, better — though still inadequate —

respect for rights." Carl J. Schramm; USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-06-27-capitalism_x.htm "Capitalism is defined as, 1: An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decisions, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in the free market." Mike Wasdin http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/wasdin/wasdin28.html In the Academy of MN's blog's description of The Nature of Human Nature, http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/2008/08/nature-of-human-nature.html , it is made clear that "man's ethical values, compulsions, activities, and restraints can be justified on natural grounds," and that "his highest good [is] pursued and attained under natural conditions." "Qua Man" includes anything that was known true of man qua man when Aristotle coined the phrase, to what rational, ontological, metaphysical naturalism (or Objectivism, which are not the same) determine it to be. Why? Because those two philosophies do not degrade Man, they raise him up from the mud that other philosophies squash him into. Anything less than capitalism, whereby economic goals are neither restricted nor determined by the coercive forces of government, is not an economy of freedom. Please send all comments to mailto:[email protected] http://freeassemblage.blogspot.com/ The Free Assemblage of Metaphysical Naturalists is the sm of the Academy of Metaphysical Naturalism tm, the educational arm of the Assemblage. This publication © 2008 by Curtis Edward Clark and Naturalist Academy Publishing ® Posted by Curtis Edward Clark; Dean