LFU:online

intimate knowledge of philosophy of law, ethics and political philosophy as well as the capability of analyzing, interrelating and reflecting it; advanced philosophical and legal reasoning; transdisciplinary competence.

In this seminar we are concerned with major problems and theories of freedom of speech. These include: Freedom of opinion in the area of conflict between morality and law; freedom of speech in the history of ideas; freedom of speech in different legal systems worldwide; freedom of speech in the ECtHR framework; freedom of speech as a negative and/or positive right; freedom of speech and social media; the right to freedom of opinion as a human right and the question of the hierarchy of values and norms; „hate speech“; “defamation of religion”; genocide denial; democratic ethics of political conflicts.

Reading, presentations, discussions

in combined form  

will be announced during lecture