ABSTRACT

Ray, as the official ‘critic’ for the present symposium, has had fulsome fun with Eysenck's scheme. Clearly, he and I agree about a wide range of matters—especially as to the basic support that exists for Eysenck's theory, as to the need for a more convincing measure of T (or, indeed, P), and as to Eysenck's underestimation of the true authoritarianism of the Left. At the same time I doubt that he has a valid or integrated alternative to Eysenck's theory; and I am quite certain that the ‘libertarian’ perspective of fashionable economics does not strictly require a fundamental antithesis between entrepreneurial capitalism and all other (as Ray would have them, ‘collectivist’) ideologies—especially that of traditional Christianity with its respect for both law and love.