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A Republican Theory of Free SpeechLiberal Toleration and Harmful Speech

A Republican Theory of Free Speech: Liberal Toleration and Harmful Speech [In this chapter, I consider several key responses to harmful speech found in the recent liberal theory literature. I first examine Jeremy Waldron’s important work The Harm in Hate Speech. As a response to the prevailing non-interference approach to free speech, Waldron clearly articulates the specific dignitary harm that hate speech causes to victims. While Waldron’s concept of assurance remains persuasive, his account does not go far enough in showing how less explicit forms of speech also undermine this basic need. I then explore Anna E. Galeotti’s ‘toleration as recognition’ approach to ethical conflict, ultimately concluding that her proposed esteem corrective to cultural misrecognition is insufficiently sensitive to the sources of calls for recognition. As an alternative to these two preceding accounts, I show how Rainer Forst’s toleration as reciprocal respect adequately grounds the normative foundations of citizen relations who disagree on conceptions of the good.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Republican Theory of Free SpeechLiberal Toleration and Harmful Speech

Whitten, Suzanne
Springer Journals — Oct 23, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-030-78630-4
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51 –84
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10.1007/978-3-030-78631-1_3
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[In this chapter, I consider several key responses to harmful speech found in the recent liberal theory literature. I first examine Jeremy Waldron’s important work The Harm in Hate Speech. As a response to the prevailing non-interference approach to free speech, Waldron clearly articulates the specific dignitary harm that hate speech causes to victims. While Waldron’s concept of assurance remains persuasive, his account does not go far enough in showing how less explicit forms of speech also undermine this basic need. I then explore Anna E. Galeotti’s ‘toleration as recognition’ approach to ethical conflict, ultimately concluding that her proposed esteem corrective to cultural misrecognition is insufficiently sensitive to the sources of calls for recognition. As an alternative to these two preceding accounts, I show how Rainer Forst’s toleration as reciprocal respect adequately grounds the normative foundations of citizen relations who disagree on conceptions of the good.]

Published: Oct 23, 2021

Keywords: Toleration; Hate speech; Waldron; Recognition; Multiculturalism; Free speech

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