Kant on Free Speech

Criticism, Enlightenment, and the Exercise of Judgement in the Public Sphere

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20510571
AutoresKristi Sweet (0000-0001-5887-3830, Texas A&M University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume29
Fascículo1
Páginas61-80
Data de publicação2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoKantian Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s136941542300047x
OpenAlexW4389785514
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

In this article, I offer a novel and in-depth account of how, for Kant, free speech is the mechanism that moves a society closer to justice. I argue that the criticism of the legislator preserved by free speech must also be the result of collective agreement. I further argue that structural features of judgements of taste and the sensus communis give guidance for how we should communicate publicly to succeed at the aims Kant has laid out, as judgements of taste, like politics, belong fundamentally to a transitional sphere between nature and freedom

Criticism · Economic Justice · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Judgement · Legislation · Legislator · Political science · Politics · Taste · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification