http://www.cato-unbound.org Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/july-2010-darwin-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-369638 Links, Aggregated 7/23/10 | anotherpanacea Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:16:52 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?page_id=3609#comment-369638 [...] Darwin and Politics If the good is the desirable, then a Darwinian science can help us understand the human good by showing us how our natural desires are rooted in our evolved human nature. In Darwinian Natural Right and Darwinian Conservatism, I have argued that there are at least 20 natural desires that are universally expressed in all human societies because they have been shaped by genetic evolution as natural propensities of the human species. Human beings generally desire a complete life, parental care, sexual identity, sexual mating, familial bonding, friendship, social status, justice as reciprocity, political rule, courage in war, health, beauty, property, speech, practical habituation, practical reasoning, practical arts, aesthetic pleasure, religious understanding, and intellectual understanding. [...] [...] Darwin and Politics If the good is the desirable, then a Darwinian science can help us understand the human good by showing us how our natural desires are rooted in our evolved human nature. In Darwinian Natural Right and Darwinian Conservatism, I have argued that there are at least 20 natural desires that are universally expressed in all human societies because they have been shaped by genetic evolution as natural propensities of the human species. Human beings generally desire a complete life, parental care, sexual identity, sexual mating, familial bonding, friendship, social status, justice as reciprocity, political rule, courage in war, health, beauty, property, speech, practical habituation, practical reasoning, practical arts, aesthetic pleasure, religious understanding, and intellectual understanding. [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/july-2010-darwin-and-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-369171 Cato Unbound: Does Evolution Imply Libertarianism? - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:34:33 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?page_id=3609#comment-369171 [...] here to enjoy the exchange on the social and political implications of evolutionary [...] [...] here to enjoy the exchange on the social and political implications of evolutionary [...]

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