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, November 29, 2012

Incest in Ancient Egypt and Persia: A Westermarckian Response to Paul John Frandsen

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Six years ago, I wrote a post entitled "So What's Wrong with Incest?"  Amazingly, every week since then, that post has been o...
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"Natural Right and Biology"--Ken Blanchard's New Blog

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"Natural Right and Biology" is the title for Ken Blanchard's new blog.   He will be writing about topics related to what he se...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Spielberg's "Lincoln": The Nobility of Politics and the "Appeal to Heaven"

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"The movie portrays the nobility of politics in exactly the right way."  "The challenge of politics lies precisely in the mar...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

The Biological Naturalism of the Lockean Pursuit of Happiness

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In some previous posts, I have identified myself as a Midwest Straussian--as someone who combines Aristotelian ethics and Lockean politics, ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Locke's Evolutionary History of Politics

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Reading Jose de Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the Indies is essential for understanding John Locke's political thought and ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

The Manly Ambition of Political Animals

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How should we explain people like Barack Obama and Mitt Romney?  And how should we explain the rest of us--that we are so fascinated by thei...
Monday, October 29, 2012

The Evolutionary Politics of Minimal Winning Coalitions: On the Work of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith

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The apparent closeness of the American presidential race between Obama and Romney is a reminder of the fundamental principle of human politi...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?

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Debbie Duncan.  You surely remember her.  She was the beautiful blonde voted Best All-Round Girl in 1967 at Big Spring High School in Big Sp...
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Monday, October 08, 2012

Abraham Lincoln, Classical Liberal

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On this blog, I have often written about the fundamental agreement between Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin.  Darwin agreed with Lincoln t...
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