Ethical Reflections

Ethical Reflections

Are There Limits to Free Speech?

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Abstract
Freedom of speech has traditionally been a cause championed by the left and liberal side of the political spectrum, against conservatives who have tried to limit the expression of radical ideas. Here are three examples from the United States: 1) When I was appointed to Princeton University in 1999, Steve Forbes, whose father had endowed the university’s Forbes College, called for my appointment to be rescinded, and pledged that he would not donate to the university as long as I was on the faculty. Forbes was, at the time, running for the Republican nomination for president.
 
Keywords
Freedom
speech
Limits
Germany

Article Title Persian

آیا آزادی بیان محدودیت دارد؟

Author Persian

پیتر سینگر
استاد برجسته فلسفه دانشگاه پرینستون آمریکا
Abstract Persian

Freedom of speech has traditionally been a cause championed by the left and liberal side of the political spectrum, against conservatives who have tried to limit the expression of radical ideas. Here are three examples from the United States: 1) When I was appointed to Princeton University in 1999, Steve Forbes, whose father had endowed the university’s Forbes College, called for my appointment to be rescinded, and pledged that he would not donate to the university as long as I was on the faculty. Forbes was, at the time, running for the Republican nomination for president.
 

Keywords Persian

آزادی
سخن
محدودیت
آلمان
Bastian, T. (ed.). (1990). Denken, Schreiben, Töten. Stuttgart: Hirzel.
Franz, Christoph. (1990). Tödlicher Zeitgeist. Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Witsch.
Franz, Christoph. (June 5, 1989). “(K)ein Diskurs über 'lebensunwertes Leben,'” Der Spiegel, No. 23/1989.
Mill, John Stuart. (2003). On Liberty, Yale University Press.
Rorty, Richard. (1994). “Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions,” Academe, 80 (6): pp. 52-63.
Salovey, Peter. (November 26, 2017). “Free Speech Personified,” New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/opinion/free-speech-yale-civil-rights.html
Schulz, Kathryn. (April 17, 2017). “Saint Pauli” The New Yorker. Published online as “The Many Lives of Pauli Murray.” Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray.
Singer, Peter.(1993). Practical Ethics, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Singer, Peter. (2000). Writings on an Ethical Life, Ecco, New York.
Tolmein, O. (1990). Geschätztes Leben. Hamburg: Konkret Literatur Verlag.
 

  • Receive Date 14 June 2021