Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to confront the ethical question of the constraints of speech. Focus is put on the harm or the offence caused by the speech in question: can we say that sometimes the harm or the offence brought about by a certain speech constitutes such an injury that it cannot be tolerated? More specifically, under what conditions can preventing offence provide adequate reason for limiting freedom of expression?
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R. M. Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth, 1977), pp. 266–78; ‘Liberalism’, in A Matter of Principle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985), pp. 181–204.
J. S. Mill, On Liberty (London: Dent, Everyman’s Edition, 1948), p. 114.
Z. Chafee, Free Speech in the U.S. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1946), p. 397.
Joel Feinberg, Offence to Others (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 1–2.
T. M. Scanlon, ‘Freedom of Expression and Categories of Expression’, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 40 (1979), p. 527.
Donald Vandeveer, ‘Coercive Restraint of Offensive Actions’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 8 (1979), p. 177.
Robert C. Carson, James N. Butcher and Susan Mineka, Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).
R. Cohen-Almagor, The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1994), chap. 12.
Herbert McClosky and Alida Brill, Dimensions of Tolerance (New York: Russel Sage Foundation, 1983).
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2001). Harm Principle, Offence Principle, and Hate Speech. In: Speech, Media and Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501829_1
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