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.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Does the Evolution of Open Access Societies Show Moral Progress in History?

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Looking over the deep evolutionary history of human social order, we can see two great social revolutions.  The First Social Revolution was ...
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Do the Bee Police Enforce God's Law? Or Are They Darwinian Nihilists?

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The public cheering of the police in Boston after they successfully hunted down the terrorist bombers reminds us of our dependence on police...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Hobbesian Political Philosophy as Empirical Science

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It has always seemed odd to me that scholars in the history of political philosophy pay so little attention to empirical evidence.  I was ...
Friday, April 05, 2013

Nihilism as Disappointed Platonism

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Is Darwinism nihilism? If you are a Platonist, yes.  If you are not a Platonist, no. Most Platonists today are disappointed Platonists-...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Abbey, Franco, and Johnson on Nietzsche's Middle Period

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I have written a long series of posts defending the writings of Nietzsche's middle period as superior to his early and late writings, an...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

Nietzsche--Aristocratic Radical or Aristocratic Liberal?

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Bruce Detwiler's Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism (University of Chicago Press, 1990) is the best single study of ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A Darwinian Grand Tour--From Chicago to the Galapagos to Freiburg

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Over the next year, I will be travelling around the world for some lecturing. I begin in Chicago at the Midwest Political Science Associat...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Religious Longing for Myth in Nietzsche and Nazism

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The contradictory and incoherent character of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings arises from his ambivalent stance in the debate between Pla...
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Friday, March 08, 2013

Nietzsche's Aristocratic Liberalism

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In the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche's middle period, when his thinking was shaped by Darwinian science, he embraced what I will call ...
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