The Left has traditionally assumed that human nature is so malleable, so perfectible, that it can be shaped in almost any direction. By contrast, a Darwinian science of human nature supports traditionalist conservatives and classical liberals in their realist view of human imperfectibility, and in their commitment to ordered liberty as rooted in natural desires, cultural traditions, and prudential judgments.
As I explained in a post that I wrote last spring, I see her arguments for the hypothetical imperatives of natural goodness as one line of reasoning for Darwinian naturalism.
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