FF:CORE084 Svoboda projevu - Course Information
CORE084 Svoboda projevu
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Radim Bělohrad, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Radim Bělohrad, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- TYP_STUDIA ( BM ) && FORMA ( P ) && !( PROGRAM ( B - PH_ ) || OBOR ( FBPHpV ))
The course is open to students in the full-time Bachelor's and five-year Master's cycle, except for the Philosophy programme.
The ability to understand academic texts in English. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100 - Course objectives
- The goal of the course is to introduce students to the value of free speech and the dilemmas that must be faced by anyone who accepts and defends this value.
- Learning outcomes
- The successful graduate of this course will be able to describe:
- the value of the right to free speech (in the context of a post-communist country);
- the history and philosophical defence of the right to free speech;
- the difficulties in determining the boundary between permissible and harmful speech;
- major terms and concepts with a bearing on free speech issues, such as hate speech, political correctness, cancel culture, identity politics, etc.
- the relationship between freedom of expression and the protection of religious sensibilities, pornography, artistic creation and satire;
- the interrelationship and mutual influence between freedom of expression, the internet and social networks. - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction, basic concepts, legal background.
- 2. Freedom of speech in communist Czechoslovakia.
- 3. History and philosophical justifications of the right to free speech.
- 4. Boundaries of free speech, harm, and models of restriction.
- 5. Free speech and hate speech.
- 6. Political correctness.
- 7. Cancel culture and identity politics.
- 8. Manifestations of the cancel culture.
- 9. Freedom of speech in Western universities.
- 10. Freedom of expression and pornography.
- 11. Freedom of expression and religion.
- 12. Freedom of expression in the age of the internet and social networking.
- 13. Prominent cases from the Czech context.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- WARBURTON, Nigel. Free speech : a very short introduction. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 115 stran. ISBN 9780199232352. info
- not specified
- Povinná literatura je zadána v interaktivní osnově předmětu.
- The Oxford handbook of freedom of speech. Edited by Adrienne Stone - Frederick F. Schauer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, xxiii, 584. ISBN 9780198827580. info
- CHEMERINSKY, Erwin and Howard GILLMAN. Free speech on campus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017, xi, 197. ISBN 9780300226560. info
- Freedom of speech : the history of an idea. Edited by Elizabeth Powers. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011, xxv, 227. ISBN 9781611483666. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture, required readings, discussion
- Assessment methods
- Final test, pass level 60%.
- Náhradní absolvování
- The lectures will be recorded and made available in an interactive curriculum. Students can familiarize themselves with them, and they can also study the required literature at a distance. All distance learning materials will be available. Students are required to take the final test in the same format as other students.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Study support
- https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/phil/jaro2025/CORE084/index.qwarp
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
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