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Author(s): Long G
Editor(s): Newey G
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Freedom of Expression: Counting the Costs
Year: 2007
Pages: 144-168
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press
Place Published: Newcastle
Notes: This paper offers an original defence of the value of free speech - and its limitations - grounded in what has been termed 'political liberalism'. It argues that standards of moral and epistemic reasonableness (as outlined by thinkers such as Rawls and Larmore) support unlimited reasonable speech. Where speech becomes unreasonable in either of these two regards, state intervention can be considered, and the paper discusses the legitimacy of available state responses. The significance of this argument is twofold. First, it advances a novel general argument for free speech, and a distinctive account of its limits. Second, it develops such a position as a response to gaps in existing 'political liberal' scholarship, and in so doing highlights the interconnection between central aspects (political liberty, social justice, state legitimacy) of the political liberal project. (c. 9000 words)
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ISBN: 9781847183606
