The categories ‘individualist’ vs ‘pluralistic’ liberalism seem to me to fit into the framework of multilevel cultural evolution. The basic idea is that the individual human phenotype is not a behavioral unitary. Many of our behaviors only make sense as adaptive for complex group scale coalition. So in the ‘real world’, i.e. the social complexity landscape, laissez-faire libertarian immediatism actually doesn’t produce individual thriving.
I think the 'thick' version of liberalism/libertarianism evolved out of necessity because laissez-faire libertarian immediatism failed to reach its promise in practical reality. I do think human nature, as influenced by our evolutionary instincts, among other things, has something to do with this.
The categories ‘individualist’ vs ‘pluralistic’ liberalism seem to me to fit into the framework of multilevel cultural evolution. The basic idea is that the individual human phenotype is not a behavioral unitary. Many of our behaviors only make sense as adaptive for complex group scale coalition. So in the ‘real world’, i.e. the social complexity landscape, laissez-faire libertarian immediatism actually doesn’t produce individual thriving.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2218222120
I think the 'thick' version of liberalism/libertarianism evolved out of necessity because laissez-faire libertarian immediatism failed to reach its promise in practical reality. I do think human nature, as influenced by our evolutionary instincts, among other things, has something to do with this.