19 янв. 2024 г. · In political philosophy, one standard approach is to theorize free speech as a requirement of morality, tracing the implications of such a ... Justifying Free Speech · Free speech skepticism

29 нояб. 2002 г. · This entry explores the topic of free speech. It starts with a general discussion of freedom in relation to speech and then moves on to ...

Plato in The Republic was one of the earliest philosophers to argue for severe curbs on free expression. In the ideal society that he describes, there is no ...

13 июл. 2022 г. · Plato and Aristotle place opinion intermediate between knowledge and ignorance with all opinions under the suspicion of error.

of Plato's friend and teacher, Socrates, attests. The idea that Socrates was the original martyr for free speech has long been a liberal commonplace ...

2 дек. 2017 г. · For philosophers like Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, “free speech” meant primarily the intellectual freedom to participate in the public exchange of ...

10 сент. 2024 г. · Plato's speech represents his creative attempt to defend Socrates and his way of life and to condemn those who voted to kill him.

Ultimately, Plato's idea of freedom tells us that liberty is only truly available to a select few, not to a broad citizenry. Thus, freedom and democracy are not ...

Downloadable! As this new reading of Plato's Gorgias shows, four distinct positions with regard to freedom of speech are introduced in this classical text ...

Plato seems to suggest that Aristophanes' presentation of. Socrates in The Clouds, which quite cruelly caricatured him as a thief and a fraud, was slanderous ...