Liberalism and campus hate speech: a philosophical examination

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A liberal justification for narrowly drawn campus regulations against hate speech is based on the idea that such speech wrongs its targets by treating them as moral subordinates. These wrongs are appropriate objects of regulation because they represent a common violation of the ideals of liberal democracy. To focus narrowly on speech acts of moral subordination, the rules should prohibit speech employing slurs and epithets directed at particular individuals with the intention of degrading them on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual preference.

Ethical aspects, Hate speech, College discipline

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The independent value of freedom

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Freedom has independent value, a position which supports liberal interest in the quantifiability of freedom. Ronald Dworkin and Will Kymlicka have taken the opposing position that freedom is not measurable, but instead refers to different kinds of freedom. Their position denies the independent value of freedom. Kinds of independent value that might apply include unconditional value, intrinsic value, nonspecific instrumental value, and constitutive value. Disvalues of freedom and the relation between freedom and distributive justice are also discussed.

Liberty, Freedom, international

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Revisionist liberalism and the decline of culture

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A liberal theory of justice which emphasizes individual rights cannot justify state support of the arts. For example, John Rawls's conception of a neutral rights-based constitution discounts any cultural concerns. Ronald Dworkin's argument based on the obligation to provide a level of culture to future generations is unconvincing. A collectivist account which rejects mutual disinterest in favor of a social contract that protects the cultural life of the community is more compatible with the practice of majoritarian democracy.

Art and state, Cultural policy, Arts policy

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