The Politics of Consent

LZ Granderson: Liberalism teaches people to hedge commitments and adopt flexible relationships. He says the very premise that all of one's relationships are fundamentally based on consent is going to inherently have an ethical impact, he says. LZ: The first wave of this revolution was inaugurated by early modern thinkers dating back to the Renaissance. It insisted that man should employ natural science and a transformed economic system to seek mastery of nature,. Second wave replaced belief in a fixed human nature with belief in human plasticity and capacity for moral progress.