Liberalism is rightly considered to be an ideology based primarily on individual freedom. Hobbes and Locke, as philosophical proponents of natural rights, were among the first to argue that government exists primarily for the protection of individual rights.
This is no longer a left wing progressive stance, this is considered centre right in current UK govt enforced attitudes.
Elias singles out Nietzsche as the philosophical incarnation of the retention, consolidation, and spread of the warrior ethos in middle class Germany
Fascinating to see how the context of Nietzsche bred his "unique" views that so resonate with thinkers today as they no doubr reminisce over their lost empires!!!
the Sonderweg thesis
notes here: https://grok.com/c/d20d18d9-6ae4-482e-a985-d8188a23b570
In particular, the increasing inequality of wealth among merchants could haveundermined political support for the system.
Today, we are likely through the phase of moving to complete international laws and reliance on "impartial' laws - but these have become partial (idealogocally captured) and so the rich once again aim to escape (they have the means) so they can once again be subject to impartial laws. Protests around UK/US bias in judgement is evident currently.
it motivated the invention andenabled the use of such financial instruments as letters of credit, letters of exchangeand insurance contracts that became widely used in Europe during that time.
Massive financial upside from trust in the system, built slowly over time to allow creative freedom to invent various favourable "futures".
Ironically, the system seems to have undermined itself; theprocesses it fostered were those that increased trade and urban growth—the causesof its decline.
"A system is what is does" Stafford Beer