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, November 29, 2015

"Ex Machina": Can Robotic Love Pass the Turing Test?

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                                                                 Ava in Ex Machina I have recently viewed Alex Garland's film Ex M...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Matt Ridley's Evolutionary Science of Lucretian Libertarianism

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Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui meme.  "Let do and let  pass, the world goes on by itself."  This was the de...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The Natural Desire for Beauty

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                                                    Bust of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt Number 12 on my list of 20 natural desires is bea...
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Friday, November 06, 2015

Justice Abraham Lincoln's Opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges

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A long list of prominent people have signed a "Statement Calling for Constitutional Resistance to Obergefell v. Hodges," which ha...
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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Ben Carson's Creationism: Is Evolutionary Science Promoted by Satan?

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As Dr. Ben Carson has risen in the opinion polls for the Republican presidential primaries, there has been increased scrutiny of his Seventh...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Intelligent Design Theory Is a Sophistical Argument from Ignorance and Equivocation

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In Chapter 7 of Darwinian Conservatism and in various posts on this blog, I have claimed that the argument for intelligent design theory (as...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Did Abraham Lincoln's Speech in Charleston Show that He Was a White Supremacist?

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Lerone Bennett, Jr., is an African American historian and journalist. who has been a senior editor of Ebony magazine for many years.  He att...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Animal Homosexuality: Response from Aldo Poiani

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In response to my previous post, Aldo Poiani (a biologist at Monash University, Victoria) has sent me the following email message, and he ha...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

The Thomistic Natural Law of Animal Homosexuality

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In explaining natural law as rooted in biological nature, Thomas Aquinas often quoted the words of the Roman jurist Ulpian at the beginning ...
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