Two studies explored the relationship between political ideology and endorsement of a range of moral principles. Political liberals and conservatives did not differ on intrapersonal or interpersonal moralities, which require self-regulation. However differences emerged on collective moralities, which involve social regulation. Contrary to Moral Foundations Theory, both liberals and conservative...

ARGUMENT In the 1970s a public controversy erupted over the proposed use of brain operations to curtail violent behavior. Civil libertarians, civil rights and community activists, leaders of the anti-psychiatry movement, and some U.S. Congressmen charged psychosurgeons and the National Institute of Mental Health, with furthering a political project: the suppression of dissent. Several governmen...

In the wake of the Littleton, Colorado shooting tragedy, public attention has again been focused on the problem of potentially harmful Internet content. Many parents and legislators have proposed that commercially available filtering software is the best way to keep children away from the "red light districts of cyberspace," while also protecting the First Amendment. Civil libertarians and othe...

For many libertarians, the thesis of self-ownership is the foundation of their political philosophy. Natural rights to life, liberty, and propertyÑthe protection of which is, according to the libertarian, governmentÕs sole legitimate functionÑderive from self-ownership, in particular oneÕs ownership of his body and its parts, of his capacities and labor, and, by extension, of whatever he can ac...

Above the entrance to the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service on Constitution Avenue is chiseled the quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.” It is easy enough to see why state officials would want to put that quotation on display, for it counsels people to be pleased with the taxes they pay. It’s not so easy, though, to determine the accur...

The present paper argues that libertarians (e.g. Murray Rothbard, Stephan Kinsella) who subscribe the proportionality principle while embracing view to have a right property is defend it run into what we call Property Defense Dilemma. For if only way disproportionately, then private – contrary these thinkers claim not accompanied by it. most plausible out of dilemma conceive rights as weakly ab...

Libertarianism enshrines individual autonomy as its central political principle, but it has been criticized for applying this principle selectively. Reproductive decisions can stress the concept of by placing into conflict claimed rights each biological parent to choose. Two studies (N1 = 296; N2 580) show that among U.S. participants, libertarianism is associated with opposition women's reprod...

Results from a nationally representative survey (N = 1, 341) provide evidence that self-reported nonvoting behavior is associated with lower endorsement of moral concerns and values (Study 1). Across three studies, five large samples (total N = 27,038), and two presidential elections, we replicate this pattern and show that the explicit intention not to vote is associated with lower endorsement...

Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice deserves more attention than it has received, for in Paine provides a foundational case broad social welfare program that is absent his better-known Rights of Man. In this paper, I explain Justice, and consider the objection main revenue source proposes – “ground-rent” insufficient to fund he because production value contribution attributable natural resources in...