tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post2325148731415435147..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: The Evolution of America's Cognitive Elite Through Assortative MatingLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-77454968107598232812015-02-02T22:34:38.098+00:002015-02-02T22:34:38.098+00:00In my chapter on Rawls in Political Questions, I a...In my chapter on Rawls in Political Questions, I argue against Rawls's claim that justice cannot be the rewarding of desert if desert is based on undeserved attributes. This would make impossible any conception of justice. Whatever claim a person might make to meriting or deserving some reward must ultimately rest on an unmerited, undeserved attribute. Because no human being is self-created, no person is ever completely responsible for the kind of person that he or she is. Children cannot be responsible for the genetic endowment or social environment that they have inherited from their parents.Larry Arnharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-8062107671116270402015-02-02T18:33:34.723+00:002015-02-02T18:33:34.723+00:00"But insofar as this cognitive ability has be..."But insofar as this cognitive ability has become heritable, it seems unearned and thus unfair."<br />You need to stop being a Rawlsian and thinking that talents are separable from the self. Read Millikan's "The Tangle of Biological Purposes That is Us" in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications for a better understanding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com