--- Louis Kontos <lkontos at mac.com> wrote:
>how does one 'integrate the insights of
> evolutionary psychology into
> progressive politics'?
I like what Steven Pinker has to say in _The Blank Slate_:
"[Robert Trivers] viewed sociobiology as a subversive discipline. A sensitivity to conflicts of interest can illuminate the interests of repressed agents, such as women and younger generations, and it can expose the deception and self-deception that elites used to justify their dominance. In that way sociobiology follows in the liberal tradition of Locke by using science and reason to debunk the rationalizations of rulers. Reason was used in Locke's time to question the divine rights of kings, and may be used in our time to question the pretension that current political arrangements serve everyone's interests."
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