Ethics Tune Up: Free Speech and Tolerance

Most of us cherish free speech, but we acknowledge there are limits.

We might recoil against government censorship yet want the voices in our social media feeds that are spreading disinformation to be silenced. We might cheer on radicals who are willing to challenge prevailing views – until those views are the ones we hold to be true. Even those who endorse the most expansive notion of tolerance have to decide whether they will tolerate the intolerant. This workshop will go back to first principles and explore why we value free speech, look at the forces that challenge it today and probe the limits of tolerance in our everyday lives. 

You’ll share the session with other curious participants, and delve deeper into the mess and complexity of what it means to be human.

Ethics Tune Up is an innovative and engaging masterclass series from The Ethics Centre.