Publius is a collective pseudonym for the group of people organizing this collection of essays.
In the spirit of the Federalist Papers, Publius is a collective pseudonym for the group of people organizing this collection of essays.
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On the Origin of Socialist Darwinism
Socialist Darwinism is the idea that natural selection promotes societies that cooperate as moral communities.
Morality Regulates Our Social Physiology
Darwin knew humans can’t survive or thrive individually. Indeed the relation between people and groups is akin to that between genes and bodies.
Darwinizing the Federalist Papers: Preamble
The Federalist Papers argued for the creation of a more perfect UNION based on Enlightenment values that predated Darwin. Here we add 200+ years of scientifically refined thought.
More Perfect UNIONS Must Regulate Their Parts
Every animal society experiences the same tension between the need to cooperate to achieve collective benefits and the disruptive pursuit of lower-level interests.
The Darwinian ‘Struggle for Existence’ is Really About Balance
Darwin made it clear that the term "struggle for existence" was not to be taken literally but should rather be understood in a large and metaphorical sense.
The Human Social Organism and a Parliament of Genes
Ten thousand years of cultural evolution has impressively expanded the scale of human cooperation to levels that could not have been imagined by our distant ancestors.
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