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.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Confucian Way (3): C. S. Lewis and the Tao

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A Darwinian science of virtue explains moral order as a joint product of natural propensities, cultural traditions, and individual judgments...
Friday, May 21, 2010

The Confucian Way (2): Filial Piety and the Practical Syllogism

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If we consider the large number of people whose way of life in China has been shaped by it for 2,000 years, the Analects must be considered...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Confucian Way

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In October, I will be travelling to China for a week-long conference on "Evolution and Ethics" at Peking University in Beijing. Th...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

A Darwinian Left?--A Reply to Jiro Tanaka

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Politics and Culture is an online journal that has just published a special issue on "Bioculture: Evolutionary Cultural Studies,"...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

The Evolution of Heaven and Hell (6): The Modern Heaven & the Decline of Hell

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In 1743, the Reverend Robert Blair published a poem The Grave that became so popular that it was published in many editions. In 1808, it w...

The Evolution of Heaven and Hell (5): Dante

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The evolution of Heaven and Hell illustrates that one dimension of evolution that is uniquely human--symbolic evolution. As I have indicated...
Monday, May 03, 2010

The Evolution of Heaven and Hell (4): The Bible

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A few years ago, I taught a series of three courses on Biblical politics, with separate courses on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and...
Sunday, May 02, 2010

The Evolution of Heaven and Hell (3): Aristotle and the Contemplative Life

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For Augustine and other early Christian philosophers, Plato's teaching about the immortality of the soul and the supreme happiness of th...
Saturday, May 01, 2010

The Evolution of Heaven and Hell (2): Ancient Origins

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The intellectual history of thinking about Heaven and Hell is set forth very well in John Casey's recent book-- After Lives: A Guide to ...
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