Abstract
Liberalism is the first Western political outlook to begin freeing itself from the intuitively commonsense notion that social order required a great Legislator. The earliest thinkers associated with the rise of liberalism, such as Thomas Hobbes, still shared this view. But leading members of the Scottish Enlightenment made a conceptual breakthrough, grasping that important kinds of social order were the unintended consequences of people pursuing quite different purposes.
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