Comment on James A. Montanye's "Apotheosis of American Democracy"/Reply to Xavier L. Simon's Comment

From: The Independent Review | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

In "The Apotheosis of American Democracy" (The Independent Review 11, no. 1 [2007]: 5-17), James A. Montanye's characterization of some collateral predispositions of cooperation and reciprocity-and more generally of some behavioral consequences of genes-as "harmful" and as "flaws" is troubling when put forward in an essay that starts by positing an evolutionary process wherein "[s]ocieties strike initial balances, which then evolve differently to accommodate changing local circumstances" (p. 6). In developing his rationale, Montanye sometimes ignores the balancing mechanisms that form the ...

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