Prompt: Timothy Garton Ash argues that the ‘Western intellectual tradition has offered four main answers’ to the question ‘Why should speech be free?’ Those answers are ‘Self, Truth, Government and Diversity’. (Garton Ash, p. 73).
Taking this statement as your starting point, give a critical analysis of John Stuart Mill’s argument for free speech in his On Liberty. Specifically, critique the ethical components of Mill’s argument with respect to the three ethical theories we have covered so far: virtue ethics, Kantianism/deontology, and utilitarianism. Do you think Mill gives a strong argument for free speech? Why or why not?
Instructions: This essay is to be 1,800 words maximum. Please do not go over the word limit. I do not give higher grades for papers which exceed the word limit. The minimum amount of words is 1,700 words. Due Monday, March 13, at the beginning of class.
Please upload your paper onto Blackboard. Please also bring a hard copy to class on the day that it is due.
The essay should be 12-point font and double spaced. Check your work for grammatical and spelling mistakes. Include a bibliography at the end.
The essay must have at least FOUR citations from Mill’s On Liberty.
You are also required to study, and use, the following secondary sources for this essay. Your essay MUST include at least ONE reference to EACH of the following sources:
Plato, Apology OR Plato, Meno OR Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Kant, Metaphysics of Morals
One source on utilitarianism that we studied in class (this can include Powerpoint slides from class lectures).
Timothy Garton Ash, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Everything that is not your own work is to be cited properly in the body of the paper. Every citation that you make must include a page number as to the location of the argument/idea/quote which you are referencing.Prompt: Timothy Garton Ash argues that the ‘Western intellectual tradition has offered four main answers’ to the question ‘Why should speech be free?’ Those answers are ‘Self, Truth, Government and Diversity’. (Garton Ash, p. 73).
Taking this statement as your starting point, give a critical analysis of John Stuart Mill’s argument for free speech in his On Liberty. Specifically, critique the ethical components of Mill’s argument with respect to the three ethical theories we have covered so far: virtue ethics, Kantianism/deontology, and utilitarianism. Do you think Mill gives a strong argument for free speech? Why or why not?
Instructions: This essay is to be 1,800 words maximum. Please do not go over the word limit. I do not give higher grades for papers which exceed the word limit. The minimum amount of words is 1,700 words. Due Monday, March 13, at the beginning of class.
Please upload your paper onto Blackboard. Please also bring a hard copy to class on the day that it is due.
The essay should be 12-point font and double spaced. Check your work for grammatical and spelling mistakes. Include a bibliography at the end.
The essay must have at least FOUR citations from Mill’s On Liberty.
You are also required to study, and use, the following secondary sources for this essay. Your essay MUST include at least ONE reference to EACH of the following sources:
Plato, Apology OR Plato, Meno OR Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Kant, Metaphysics of Morals
One source on utilitarianism that we studied in class (this can include Powerpoint slides from class lectures).
Timothy Garton Ash, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Everything that is not your own work is to be cited properly in the body of the paper. Every citation that you make must include a page number as to the location of the argument/idea/quote which you are referencing.Prompt: Timothy Garton Ash argues that the ‘Western intellectual tradition has offered four main answers’ to the question ‘Why should speech be free?’ Those answers are ‘Self, Truth, Government and Diversity’. (Garton Ash, p. 73).
Taking this statement as your starting point, give a critical analysis of John Stuart Mill’s argument for free speech in his On Liberty. Specifically, critique the ethical components of Mill’s argument with respect to the three ethical theories we have covered so far: virtue ethics, Kantianism/deontology, and utilitarianism. Do you think Mill gives a strong argument for free speech? Why or why not?
Instructions: This essay is to be 1,800 words maximum. Please do not go over the word limit. I do not give higher grades for papers which exceed the word limit. The minimum amount of words is 1,700 words. Due Monday, March 13, at the beginning of class.
Please upload your paper onto Blackboard. Please also bring a hard copy to class on the day that it is due.
The essay should be 12-point font and double spaced. Check your work for grammatical and spelling mistakes. Include a bibliography at the end.
The essay must have at least FOUR citations from Mill’s On Liberty.
You are also required to study, and use, the following secondary sources for this essay. Your essay MUST include at least ONE reference to EACH of the following sources:
Plato, Apology OR Plato, Meno OR Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Kant, Metaphysics of Morals
One source on utilitarianism from Powerpoint slides
Timothy Garton Ash, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Every citation is to be cited properly in the body of the paper. Every citation that you make must include a page number as to the location of the argument/idea/quote which you are referencing.
