tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post275628929126635352..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: The Confucian Way (2): Filial Piety and the Practical SyllogismLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-59846703896924085882017-05-06T16:50:40.131+01:002017-05-06T16:50:40.131+01:00Hi all,
I disagree with Larry Arnhart's readi...Hi all,<br /><br />I disagree with Larry Arnhart's reading of Confucius. Confucius didn't think of the family as root or model. I make my case here:<br />http://warpweftandway.com/confucius-family-modelBill Haineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00025603809206417058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-48957780651785262532010-05-24T22:00:37.486+01:002010-05-24T22:00:37.486+01:00Mopenhauer-I second your sentiment. Evopsych seem...Mopenhauer-I second your sentiment. Evopsych seems to be most popular with pickup artists. I think that it would be really fun to see Mr. Arnhart defend his approach against the likes of Tucker Max and Roissy in D.C. I think that in the future, writers of their ilk are going to have a much more profound influence on culture and conceptions of the good life than Christians, creationists, and all other sorts of transcendentalists. The PUAs offer young men endless amounts of sex with beautiful women, and evolutionary psychology does lend them an air of credibility. Churchgoing has been declining for a long time in the U.S.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03918578746540002029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-26463741019014913802010-05-24T07:13:31.725+01:002010-05-24T07:13:31.725+01:00Your notes on Confucian, Islamic, Christian conser...Your notes on Confucian, Islamic, Christian conservatism restated in Darwinian terms, I think show how evopsych can be used to defend a cultural conservatism based on monogamous male investment in children which is the foundation of strong families. <br /><br />While you might be able to defend economic libertarianism based on Darwinism, without facing the is-ought or naturalistic fallacy, I don't know if it works that way for cultural conservatism.<br /><br />It seems to me that the biggest advocates of applying evopsych to life, have been male libertines who see evopsych as justifying a playboy lifestyle of being cads not dads. Now from nature, and the Is, they maybe right based on evopsych since they are enjoying the most individually enjoyable male lives they see possible. It is only when we have the Ought and a system of ethics outside of the individual, that Darwinism can be used to defend cultural conservatism. On a purely naturalistic basis, it could just as well support sexual liberation and hedonism. Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.Mopenhauerhttp://www.enamdar.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-78305605431304354162010-05-22T04:50:29.812+01:002010-05-22T04:50:29.812+01:00Just because Tian,or Di aren't much discussed ...Just because Tian,or Di aren't much discussed doesn't mean that they aren't important to Confucianism, or more broadly Ruism. As Mr. Arnhart pointed out, the Analects were composed for an audience familiar with the rituals or li of the Zhou dynasty. As is clear from a text like the Xiao Jing, public life and public ritual were meant to help man find and fulfill his proper role in the world, one which required certain relationships to Tian and Di, the earth. Hence, Tian and Di are indirectly implicated whenever Confucius talks about li. This is not to say that the Analects grounds its view of human life in transcendent nature, just that the Analects, while emphasizing human nature's primacy in determining human moral standards, isn't solely basing its morality on human emotions. It just assumes that the reader already has a rudimentary understanding of man's proper place in the world, and so leaps into the task of how it is that man can best fulfill that role.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03918578746540002029noreply@blogger.com