With some origins in ‘Athenian democracy’ free speech is one of the noblest rights which people have struggled for and defended in a multitude of ways for centuries. Put simply it is the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint. Particularly with such a broad principle, this right is not absolute when oneContinue reading “Hypocrisy of Free Speech Union opposing free speech in practice”
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Free Speech – the ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility
On 25 September Kwame Anthony Appiah, who teaches philosophy and law at New York University, had a paywalled article titled ‘Watch What You Say’ published by the New York Review of Books. It is a fascinating read on his review of two books on free speech within an historical and contemporary perspective. Thomas Paine’s rightContinue reading “Free Speech – the ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility”
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