Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart

Traditionalist conservatives and classical liberals need Charles Darwin. They need him because a Darwinian science of human nature supports Burkean conservatives and Lockean 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. Arnhart's email address is larnhart1@niu.edu.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Lewis's Lockean Liberalism

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Dyer and Watson point out that Lewis saw Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity as one of the best expressions of the classical ...
Monday, December 26, 2016

C. S. Lewis's Natural Law of Lockean Liberalism

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Did C. S. Lewis show how the ancient idea of natural law could support the modern idea of Lockean liberalism? That he did indeed do that i...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Ian Vasquez on the Human Freedom Index

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Ian Vasquez is the Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.  He has supervised the development of the ...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Human Progress: (6) Measuring the Evolution of Freedom

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Classical liberals argue that human freedom is good, because when human beings are free from coercion, they will voluntarily cooperate in th...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Human Progress: (5) Life is More Peaceful

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"The Hanging" by Jacques Callot, published in 1633 as the 11th in a series of 18 etchings entitled "The Miseries and Misfor...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Human Progress: (4) Life Shows More Equality of Opportunity

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Five years ago, the "Occupy Wall Street" movement began when protesters settled into Zuccotti Park in New York City's Wall Str...
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