John Stuart Mill Debate Series: Free Speech

John stuart mill - george hays

Room 2.07

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.” – J. S. Mill On Liberty

In the spirit of Mill’s assertion, come attend a Lincoln-Douglas style debate on the resolution:

Resolved-
Society must be protected from dangerous speech.

Affirmative: Gerald Power, AAU Chair of History and Philosophy
Negative: Roman Joch, Director of the Civic Institute

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