Dimensions of Free Speech: An Exploration of a New Theoretical Framework

This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech.

Unlike most theories that justify free speech on single grounds, this book argues for a justification; namely the double grounded principled approach; that combines and revises the arguments of equal autonomy and democratic participation at the same time. It claims that a revised and critical blending of these two justifications can serve free speech to be grounded...