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.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

John Locke and the Modern Whig Revolution of 1688

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In many posts, I have written about the two great revolutions in human history--the Neolithic Revolution, in which human beings moved from f...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Locke's "Very Strange Doctrine" of the Natural Right to Punish

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If Morris Hoffman is right that "evolution built us to punish," this could be the evolutionary basis for John Locke's argument...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

The Evolution of Darwinian Liberalism

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In December of 2013, I participated in a workshop on "Liberalism and the Evolutionary Agenda" in Freiburg, Germany.  I wrote a ...
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