Aristotle, chimpanzees and other political animals
- Larry Arnhart
- Philosophy
- 1 September 1990
Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature
- Larry Arnhart
- Philosophy
- 1998
Larry Arnhart's Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature develops an ethical naturalism by examining human desires and capacities in light of evolu tionary perspectives. Like…
The Darwinian Biology of Aristotle's Political Animals
- Larry Arnhart
- Philosophy
- 1 May 1994
It is argued that Darwinian biology confirms Aristotle's biological understanding of political animals, and allows for a unification of the social sciences and the natural sciences with Darwinian Biology as the crucial link.
The New Darwinian Naturalism in Political Theory
- Larry Arnhart
- PhilosophyAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 June 1995
There has been a resurgence of Darwinian naturalism in political theory, as manifested in the recent work of political scientists such as Roger Masters, Robert McShea, and James Q. Wilson. They…
Murray Edelman, Political Symbolism, and the Incoherence of Political Science
- Larry Arnhart
- Political Science
- 1 July 1985
Can virtue be genetically engineered?
- Larry Arnhart
- PhilosophyPolitics and the life sciences
- 1 March 2010
We are not born virtuous or vicious. But we are born with innate temperaments and capacities that influence our acquisition of virtue by learning and judgment. As Aristotle says in the Nicomachean…
A Sociobiological Defense of Aristotle's Sexual Politics
- Larry Arnhart
- Philosophy
- 1 October 1994
This article defends Aristotle and sociobiology against their feminist critics by arguing that a biological conception of human nature rightly understood can support feminism. Aristotle's telelogical…
Biopolitical science
- Larry Arnhart
- SociologyPolitics and the life sciences
- 1 March 2010
A theoretical framework for biopolitical science as a science of political animals is developed and how this science would help to understand Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 is shown.
Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian Natural Right*
- Larry Arnhart
- PsychologySocial Philosophy and Policy
- 2001
The publication in 1975 of Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology provoked a great controversy, for in that work Wilson claimed that ethics was rooted in human biology. On the first page of the book, he…
Roundtable Discussion
- A. Patner, Larry Arnhart, L. Berns, J. Murley, Stephen Vanderslice, C. Colmo
- Business
- 1 November 1993
There was a discussion of the need to share facilities more as a way of gaining greater efficiency while managing the challenge of cultural differences. The Federal labs are reaching out to what…
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