Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Pax vel Bellum?: Evolutionary Biology and Classical
Liberalism: An Introduction to the Volume
Part 1: Foundations: Morality and Mind, Human Nature and Nature’s
Order
Chapter 2: Is Darwinism Compatible with Classical Liberalism’s View
of Morality?
Chapter 3: Locke, Darwin, and America’s Future
Chapter 4: On Invisible Hands and Intelligent Design: Must
Classical Liberals also Embrace Darwinian Theory?
Chapter 5: Darwinian Conservatism and Free Will
Part 2: Applications: God and Country, Family and Legacy
Chapter 6: Darwinism, Economic Liberty, and Limited Government
Chapter 7: Darwin Knows Best: Can Evolution Support the Classical
Liberal Vision of the Family?
Chapter 8: Losing Our Religion: Darwinism, Secularism, and the
Decline of the West
Chapter 9: A History of the Impact of Darwinism on Natural Rights
and Bioethics
Part 3: Alternative Perspectives
Chapter 10: On the Relationship between Liberalism and
Darwinism
Chapter 11: Volitional Consciousness and Evolution: At the
Foundations of Classical Liberalism
Chapter 12: Evolution and Classical Liberalism
Chapter 13: An Historical Afterward
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Stephen Dilley is associate professor of philosophy at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. In addition to political philosophy, his areas of interest include the history and philosophy of biology. He has published essays in British Journal for the History of Science, The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Philosophia Christi, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, and elsewhere. With Nathan Palpant (University of Washington), Dilley is editor of Human Dignity in Bioethics: From Worldviews to the Public Square (Routledge, forthcoming).
Should free citizens ever succumb to the “metaphysical madness” of
determinism, Alexis de Tocqueville once warned, democracy would be
doomed. Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism is a nuanced
yet definitive rebuke of the neo-Darwinian notion that human beings
are ultimately governed by biological force fields beyond their
control. In tracking the consequences of this metaphysical madness
for the science and practice of politics, this volume renders an
invaluable service to democracy and all who love liberty.
*Reed Davis, Seattle Pacific University*
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