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, August 30, 2012

Adam Smith's Aristotelian Liberalism: Philosophic Friendship in a Commercial Society

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One of the most fascinating, and perplexing, features of Adam Smith's writing is that while he defends the modern commercial way of life...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Freud, Lewis, and Neuropsychoanalysis

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Yesterday, I was one of three participants in a panel discussion of the play "Freud's Last Session" at the Mercury Theater in ...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Does Oxytocin Solve the Adam Smith Problem? Part 2

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In my previous post, I summarized Paul Zak's argument for oxytocin as the "Moral Molecule."  Now I turn to the five difficulti...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Does Oxytocin Solve the Adam Smith Problem?

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Paul Zak thinks that oxytocin solves the Adam Smith Problem.  As I have indicated in some previous posts, this problem in interpreting Smi...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Adam Smith and the Darwinian Evolution of Unintended Order

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The revival of Darwinian social science that began with the publication in 1975 of Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology has stimulated almost...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

A Panel Discussion on "Freud's Last Session"

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I will be participating in a panel discussion on Freud's Last Session at the Mercury Theater in Chicago on August 19th.  The panel disc...
Monday, July 30, 2012

C. S. Lewis, Sigmund Freud, and the Question of God

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A few days ago, I saw the play Freud's Last Session at the Mercury Theater in Chicago.  This play by Mark St. Germain presents C. S. Le...
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