Intuitive Libertarianism - by Michael Huemer - Fake Noûs

Here, I summarize my ideological development since college.* This was for a book someone put together of biographies of libertarian figures. [ *Based on: “Intuitive Libertarianism,” pp. 193-8 in Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World , ed. Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter Block (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). ] Psychological research finds political orientation to be correlated with broad personality traits, such as agreeableness or extraversion. There are even studies measuring the heritability of political orientation (it’s about 40%). If you’ve interacted with ideologues, you’ve probably noticed some patterns. Perhaps you’ve noticed that people who like to wear ties are more likely to be conservative, while those who enjoy poetry readings are more likely to be socialists. (A good philosophical question is to what extent the correlations between personality and political beliefs ought to undermine our confidence in our own objectivity and ability to identify politica

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