How shall I put this concept? One of the dilemmas of the Enlightenment tradition it seems to me is this.
The enlightenment idea itself was based, in some ways, on what the later Wittgenstein, or someone like him, might have called (a series of) ' mistaken analogies ', which themselves then, over time, coalesced together.
It wasn't mainly religious ideas that were at work in this Witches' Brew (yet they played some part), but preponderantly newer scientific ones, from Newton and others, astronomical discoveries, the Scottish Enlightenment, and state bureaucratic innovations.
These innovations had relatively little to do with commercial applications, for some time, and certainly started out more mercantilist than what one would now call capitalist.
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