Why I, too, am not a conservative -- Classical liberalism and the perfectibility of man -- Normative presuppositions for democracy -- Beyond law : the institutionalized ethics of liberal order -- The equivocal ethics of liberalism -- The soul of classical liberalism -- Classical liberalism as an organizing ideal -- The sense of community in Hayekian moral order -- The Hayek difference -- God, the state and the market -- Madison's angels -- The emergence of a classical liberal : a confessional exercise.