Episode 4: Expert Opinion - Paul Cartledge
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
00:00
The History of Democracy and Free Speech
Two of the champions of democracy and freedom were pericles and, later on, demosthenes. If we had a time machine and transported them to a contemporary liberal democracy, what will they think of our modern understanding of free speech? The ancients didn't have that notion of individual. There was no ancient greek word for an individual. They didn't have the notion of capital s state,. which is a central body with all the main organs of power in their society. But o wrights talk typically and writs, is a development of a post a, post reformation, early modern political development.
Transcript
Play full episode
