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.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Kaebnick on Leon Kass's Humean Morality

I have often expressed my frustration with Leon Kass's failure to lay out a plausible line of reasoning for his positions on science, re...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Panels on "Evolution and Morality" at the APSA Convention

At this year's convention of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, in Boston, the American Society for Political and...

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Krannawitter on Lincoln, Darwin, & Biblical Historicism

This is the fourth part of my comments on Thomas Krannawitter's Vindicating Lincoln . In the first paragraph of his book, Krannawitter r...

Krannawitter on Lincoln & Prerogative

This is the third part of my comments on Thomas Krannawitter's Vindicating Lincoln . Shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter, Lincoln ...

Krannawitter on Lincoln and Limited Government

This is the second part of my comments on Thomas Krannawitter's Vindicating Lincoln . The libertarian and paleoconservative critics of L...

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Krannawitter on Lincoln & Slavery

Much of American political rhetoric turns on the assessment of Abraham Lincoln. Although many consider Lincoln the greatest American preside...

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Aristotelian Regime Analysis and Darwinian Group Selection

In Moral Minds , Marc Hauser tries to explain the evolution of human morality from traits shared with other animals. Although he does show h...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Natural Right and Biology: Marc Hauser on The Moral Instinct

As Leo Strauss showed in Natural Right and History , one can view the entire history of political philosophy as turning on the question of w...

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: Prudent Statesmanship or a Big Mistake?

I have argued that a Darwinian view of morality explains the moral sense as expressed at three levels of human experience: moral sentiments,...

Sunday, July 06, 2008

The Bicentennial of Darwin and Lincoln

Next year will bring the bicentennial of the birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who were born on February 12, 1809. There...

Saturday, June 28, 2008

David Christian's History of Everything

David Christian's Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (University of California Press, 2004) is one of the most intellectually...

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Brain Imaging Is Not Mind Reading

Last November 11th, The New York Times published an op-ed article with the title "This Is Your Brain on Politics." The authors--...

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Are Conservatism and Liberalism Genetically Inherited?

In 2005, the American Political Science Review published an article by John Alford, Carolyn Funk, and John Hibbing entitled "Are Polit...

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