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.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Created or Evolved? The Teachers Decide

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In 1965, I went to my public high school biology class in Big Spring, Texas, prepared to attack Darwinian evolution and defend creation scie...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Leo Strauss's "Epilogue": Natural Right and Biology

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One of the readings for my recent Liberty Fund conference on "Hayek and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge" was Leo Strauss's...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Hayek, Oxytocin, and the Evolution of Trade

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The Liberty Fund conference on "Hayek and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge" was good. The participants were from a wide range o...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Hayek's Freudianism and the Prehistory of Liberty

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I am preparing to travel this week to the Westward Look Resort in Tucson for a Liberty Fund conference on "Hayek and the Problem of Sci...
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Saturday, May 07, 2011

Gat on War (3): Seal Team 6 and the Evolution of Peace

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The American commandos who killed Osama bin Laden belong to an elite military group--Seal Team 6. They are said to be the "all-star tea...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Azar Gat on War (2): The Failed Rebellion of Ascetic Morality Against the Natural Desires

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In his evolutionary study of war, Azar Gat embraces evolutionary theory as "the only non-transcendent mechanism for explaining life...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

The Discussion of Darwinian Liberal Conservatism at George Mason University

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This week, I visited the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. I spoke on "Darwinian Liberal Conservatism....
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

"Darwinian Liberal Conservatism" at George Mason University

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This Wednesday, April 20, I will be lecturing on "Darwinian Liberal Conservatism" at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia....
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Gat on War (1): Hunter-Gatherers

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Azar Gat's War in Human Civilization (Oxford University Press, 2006) is one of the best scholarly studies of war ever written. He range...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

David Brooks and Evolutionary Conservatism (5): Neoconservative Fascism?

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In his recent essay for Cato Unbound , Brad Thompson explains neoconservatism as shaped by the ideas of Leo Strauss as adopted by Irving Kr...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

David Brooks and Evolutionary Conservatism (4): Freedom in the Brain

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If the human mind is the activity of the human brain, as is generally assumed today by neuroscientists, then we might worry that this denies...
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