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, June 28, 2015

Thomistic Natural Law in Justice Kennedy's Gay Marriage Opinion

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    Chicago's Gay Pride Parade Honors the Five Justices Who Supported Gay Marriage I am not convinced that Mike Huckabee was right i...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Darwinian Natural Right in the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Decision

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As I have often indicated, the general framework of Darwinian natural right is that human nature constrains but does not determine human cul...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" & Raphael's "School of Athens": A Book Cover

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Here is the book cover for the fourth edition of Political Questions, with the two paintings reproduced on the cover. I though...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Azar Gat on War in the State of Nature: Refuting Rousseau, Vindicating Locke

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The debate among the early modern political philosophers over the state of nature can be settled by modern evolutionary anthropology.  Over ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Lockean Liberalism as Symbolic Niche Construction: Locke's Mixed Modes, Searle's Institutional Facts, and McCloskey's Bourgeois Virtues

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If we accept the modern scientific explanation of the natural world, how can we explain the human mind and human society?  This is the funda...
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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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