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, February 27, 2011

Does Believing in God Arise from Our Evolved Theory of Mind?

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In God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God (published in 1967 and 1990), Alvin Plantinga offered assess...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

A Darwinian Key to Locke

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Carl Becker's book The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas is a classic study of the Declaration as ...
Monday, February 14, 2011

The Machiavellianism of Our Chimpanzee Politics

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So what would Niccolo Machiavelli say about Hosni Mubarak's political career? Machiavelli might admire Mubarak's rise from a militar...
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Monday, February 07, 2011

The Moral Realism of Darwin, Lincoln, and Obama

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February 12th will be the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809. Two years ago was the bicente...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Darwinian Marriage (3): An Exchange with Matt Franck

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Today, those of us in the American Midwest are confined to our homes by the Blizzard of '11. For me, it's an opportunity to think so...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Darwinian Marriage (2): A Response to Robert George

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Here I continue what I began in my previous post on Robert George's article "What is Marriage?" About a year ago, I wrote a ...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Darwinian Marriage: A Response to Robert George

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What difference would it make for our lives--morally, legally, and politically--if we reproduced asexually? If you believe in a strict separ...
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