http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/12/1067 Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:33:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/12/1067/comment-page-1#comment-106 ADF Alliance Alert » Darwin’s Disciples Today Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:11:35 +0000 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/12/1067#comment-106 [...] Holloway writes at Public Discourse: “As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary [...] [...] Holloway writes at Public Discourse: “As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary [...]

]]> http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/12/1067/comment-page-1#comment-104 The Origins of Darwinian Political Thought « Public Discourse Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:20:24 +0000 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/12/1067#comment-104 [...] The first attempts to draw political guidance from Darwin, then, on both the Left and the Right, turn out to be not examples of a scientific political theory but examples—however sophisticated, sincere, and well-intentioned—of the partial appropriation of scientific concepts for pre-determined ideological ends. Their popularization therefore led not to the enlightenment of the public discourse but the reverse. As we will see in the second part of this article, contemporary examples of Darwinian political theory, on both the Left and Right, fare no better. Carson Holloway is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of The Right Darwin? Evolution, Religion, and the Future of Democracy and a contributor to Darwinian Conservatism: A Disputed Question. This article is the first of a two-part series. Read the second installment here. [...] [...] The first attempts to draw political guidance from Darwin, then, on both the Left and the Right, turn out to be not examples of a scientific political theory but examples—however sophisticated, sincere, and well-intentioned—of the partial appropriation of scientific concepts for pre-determined ideological ends. Their popularization therefore led not to the enlightenment of the public discourse but the reverse. As we will see in the second part of this article, contemporary examples of Darwinian political theory, on both the Left and Right, fare no better. Carson Holloway is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of The Right Darwin? Evolution, Religion, and the Future of Democracy and a contributor to Darwinian Conservatism: A Disputed Question. This article is the first of a two-part series. Read the second installment here. [...]

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