The New Darwinian Naturalism in Political Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3432008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry Arnhart (0000-0002-9238-1116, Northern Illinois University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 389-400 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2082432 |
| OpenAlex | W2162151568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 78 |
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 belong to an intellectual tradition that includes not only Charles Darwin but also Aristotle and David Hume. Although most political scientists believe Darwinian social theory has been refuted, their objections rest on three false dichotomies: facts versus values, nature versus freedom, and nature versus nurture. Rejecting these dichotomies would allow the social sciences to be linked to the natural sciences through Darwinian biology
Biology · Darwinism · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Naturalism · Nature versus nurture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions
Why Biological Explanation
The Explanatory Power of the Soul
The Grandeur of Biopolitical Science
Human rights at the “end of nature”
Human nature and political conventions
Gifts given, gifts taken
Darwin and the Declaration
Beyond the Dualism of Nature and Culture
Nature and Culture in Feminist Biology
Westermarck's altruism
Biopolitical science
Evolutionary Thinking Within Political Science
Aristotle, Hobbes and Chimpanzees
Above the treetops
Aristotle and the Recovery of Political Judgment
Darwinism and Classical Natural Right
The centrality of politeia for Aristotle's Politics
Evolution's republic
The centrality of politeia for Aristotle's Politics
Human reproductive behaviour
Sexuality across the Life Course
Coalitions and alliances in humans and other animals
Women in the kibbutz
The World of Economics
Philosophy of Biology
Vestiges of the natural history of creation
John Locke's Liberalism
Chimpanzee Material Culture
Heavy Drinking
A Treatise on the Family
Political Theory
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm
Sources of Human Psychological Differences
The nature of nurture
An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology
The Genetic Basis of Complex Human Behaviors
Developmental Theories for the 1990s
The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I
The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism
Human Nature and Politics
Hume's Rejection of "Ought" as a Moral Category
Critique of Judgment
The Search for Society
The Nature of Politics
Infanticide
The Biology of Moral Systems
Primate Social Systems
Infanticide
Higher Cortical Functions in Man
Higher Cortical Functions in Man
Aristotle's Biopolitics
Gender and Culture
Mia Monon ΠAntaxoy Kata ΦYΣin h aPiΣTh (En 1135 a 5) 1
Gender and Culture
Developmental Decomposition and the Future of Human Behavioral Ecology
Kant’s Political Writings
The Social Cage
Feminism, Primatology, and Ethical Naturalism
In search of human nature
Critique of Practical Reason (Hackett Classics Series)
A Sociobiological Defense of Aristotle's Sexual Politics
Human Nature Theory and Political Philosophy
The Darwinian Biology of Aristotle's Political Animals
The Moral Sense
Power Seekers are Different
A Biochemical Property Relating to Power Seeking in Humans
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
Evolutionary Biology and Political Theory
Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities
Primates and Political Authority
Aristotle, chimpanzees and other political animals
Sociobiology
The Sociobiological Imagination
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2020 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |