“Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters” [Open College series]

The first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series.

Audio links:

• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech

Topics:
What a meaningful life requires // Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics // Walt Whitman quotation // Why the authoritarian left? // How we got to where we are now // Galileo Galilei and the ideal of liberal education // Language and cognition // Free Speech *Is* Free Thought *Is* Free Action // On the individuality of cognition // On free speech and needs of cognition // What happens when free speech suppressed. Total: 52:14.

Transcription and sources: Forthcoming.

Related:

• Free Speech and Postmodernism Kindle version
• “Hitler and the Death of Free Speech”
• “The Deep Theory Behind Stifling Speech”
• “Campus Power Politics — It’s Calculated Strategy”
• Philosophy of Education Course

The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.