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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PREMIUM-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Three substantial chunks of a follow-up conversation to our free speech episode. Mark and Wes discuss Jordan Peterson on speech, organizations' promoting certain speech (as opposed to restricting), insults vs. arguments, offense vs. harm, "incoherence" arguments like Fish's, fundamental principles in ethics, and more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, if you enjoyed our episode 187 on Free Speech, you should know that Wes and

0:13.2

I had a subsequent hour and a half additional conversation.

0:16.7

To follow up on many of the topics in that episode, I want to play a few short clips of it

0:20.7

here for you now, both to tempt you to become a partially examined life citizen or Patreon

0:26.6

supporter and get the full discussion.

0:29.0

But also, these are pretty nice self-contained chunks that I think supplement what we've

0:33.2

just said on the last episode well for all of you listeners.

0:37.0

In the first clip, we're going to talk about Jordan Peterson after doing a little bit

0:39.9

of research on his views on Free Speech.

0:41.9

In the second clip, we're going to get at what's problematic about hate speech in terms

0:45.8

of speech acts.

0:47.4

Right?

0:48.4

If something is a good faith argument, something that you honestly believe, then that is the

0:52.0

kind of thing that we've typically wanted to be protected unlike a straight-up insult,

0:56.1

but of course there's plenty of speech that is both something that someone sincerely

0:59.0

believes and is also insulting.

1:00.7

The third clip is from right near the end of the discussion where we return to meta-ethics

1:05.2

and I clarify that point about why I don't think there are fundamental ethical principles.

1:09.1

So Wes and I ended up agreeing on quite a lot in this, but still very lively, very interesting.

1:14.3

It's really a whole additional episode.

1:15.8

I hope you check it out.

1:17.1

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