More Clarifications

By setting myself apart from libertarians (I would set myself apart from neo-cons but there are less of those at GCC so I don't feel it as necessary to discuss them) I have been trying to establish myself as a Classical Conservative. My political philosophy can be summed up in one phrase: the tolerable society. We cannot hope for one single institution, as has been commonly held in in modernity, whether the market or the government, to create the perfect society. Indeed, utopia is, I believe, non-existant. The good society, which is merely the tolerable society, is one where the various institutions of human existance are in balance and all are tempered by faith - or well-ordered inner order. Above I have added a figure of my concept of limited spheres. What it means is that each institution conrtrols a sphere of society. For government, this means I support a limited, but not necessarily small, government. These spheres are best defined by some sort of national constitution. Overlappin all of these spheres, however, is the large sphere of faith which influenes all the other spheres. In my political philosophy this is, or ought to be, the Christian faith but in non-Christian societies this would whatever worldview is dominant. Inevitably, our "religion" - that set of beliefs that we bind ourselves to (the literally meaning of religion) - influences every aspect of society. In the diagram it is distinct from the institutional church which is confined to its own sphere - the sphere of salvation. The sphere of faith does not mean that the institutional Church should influence all spheres of society.