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, March 29, 2018

On Deneen (4): The New Testament Lockean Liberalism of the Amish--Political and Church Membership by Individual Consent

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The argument of Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed is incoherent. He criticizes liberalism as a complete failure. But he also pr...
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Thursday, March 22, 2018

On Deneen (3): Does Liberalism Create a New Aristocracy Based on an Ignoble Lie?

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Yes, Deneen claims, liberalism necessarily creates what he calls a "titanic inequality" (3, 139-40), which allows a small elite gr...
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Saturday, March 17, 2018

On Deneen (2): Does Liberalism Make Us Lonely?

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Yes, Deneen claims, liberalism has made us all desperately lonely.  For Deneen, this illustrates how liberalism has failed because it has ...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

On Deneen (1): The Liberalism of Happiness and Declining Violence

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Steve Pinker's Enlightenment Now and Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed seem to belong to two different worlds.  Pinker ar...
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