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, January 30, 2014

Is the American Congress a Hobbesian Sovereign?

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Since I am teaching a graduate seminar on Thomas Hobbes, I found myself thinking about Hobbes as I watched the State of the Union Address on...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Hobbes's Liberal Leviathan and the Rule of the Clan

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Much of what Hobbes says in Leviathan sounds surprisingly liberal.  The fundamental right of nature is "the Liberty each man hath, to ...
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Monday, January 20, 2014

Hobbes and Somalia: Is Anarchy Better Than a Predatory Government?

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Is it true, as Hobbes declares in chapter 13 of Leviathan , that the state of nature, where there is no government, must be a state of war w...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Hobbes's Pictures of Leviathan and Liberty

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This is the most famous picture in the history of political philosophy, which is the title page for Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, or...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014

John C. Calhoun's Evolutionary Science of Human Nature, Liberty, and Race

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John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was one of the most prominent American political leaders in the first half of the 19th century.  He was elected ...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Hayek in the Amazon: The Two Worlds of the Kayapo and the Waorani

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    These two photographs are from an article in the January issue of National Geographic about the Kayapo people, who live in th...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Science of Modern Virtue--A New Book

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Northern Illinois University Press has published a new book edited by Peter Lawler and Marc Guerra, The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descar...
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The Freiburg Workshop (6): The Evolutionary Science of Classical Liberalism

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        At the Freiburg workshop, I restated my argument that we have at least twenty natural desires rooted in our evolved human nature, ...
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