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.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

From Darwin to Mao?--Pusey on Chinese Darwinism

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In 1898, Yan Fu published a Chinese translation of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics . This introduced Darwin's theory of evoluti...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Were the Bushmen in Locke's State of Nature?

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In some previous posts, I have argued that modern evolutionary studies of human social life in the Paleolithic or "Old Stone Age" ...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

David Brooks on The Moral Naturalists

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In today's New York Times (July 23), David Brooks has an op-ed essay on "The Moral Naturalists," which comments on some of ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

More on "Darwinian Liberalism" at "Cato Unbound"

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The discusssion of my essay on "Darwinian Liberalism" at "Cato Unbound" continues. The responses by P Z Myers, Lionel ...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

"Darwinian Liberalism" at "Cato Unbound"

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This Monday (July 12), an essay of mine on "Darwinian Liberalism" will be posted at the "Cato Unbound" website, which i...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Political Egalitarianism During the Last Glacial

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Are human beings naturally egalitarian or naturally hierarchical? On the one hand, for most of human evolutionary history, our ancestors liv...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

"In the beginning all the world was America": Political Evolution and Political Theory

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I have argued that a true science of politics would be grounded in a "deep history" of politics stretching back to the Paleolithic...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Smash the State! Anarchism in Medieval Iceland

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"Smash the State!" is the slogan for the anarchists. Here the "State" is defined as the institutionalized government t...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Darwinian Libertarianism?

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In his review of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1860, Thomas Huxley began by declaring: "every philosophical thinker hails it as a ...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War

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How do we explain human heroism in war? Why are we willing to sacrifice our lives in war to advance our group against our enemies? And why d...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Understanding Psychopaths and the Problem of Moral Strangers

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Mencius' famous teaching that "human nature is good" can be easily dismissed as naive in ignoring the reality of human depravi...
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