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Published in: Society 6/2019

03-12-2019 | Symposium: Self-Censorship and Life in the Liberal Academy

Are Universities Liberal or Socratic?

Author: Jonathan Marks

Published in: Society | Issue 6/2019

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Abstract

Emily Chamlee-Wright does us a service by teaching that the discussion of speech in higher education ought not to stop at the question of who has the right to say what. If members of an intellectual community are to learn from each other, they need to develop an understanding of when to speak and when to hold back from speaking. I question, though, whether Adam Smith’s idea of the impartial spectator, seemingly conceived especially to damp down conflict among individuals who can’t get enough sympathy from each other, is appropriate for a community of truth-seekers.
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Footnotes
1
Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman, Free Speech on Campus (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017), 19.
 
2
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1996), 45.
 
3
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. Elizabeth Rappaport (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1978), 49.
 
4
All quotations in the paragraph to this point are from Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1984), 112–113.
 
5
Anthony Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence (New York: Free Press, 2019), 98.
 
6
Smith, Theory, 13.
 
7
Smith, Theory, 136.
 
8
Smith, Theory, 47.
 
9
Smith, Theory, 24.
 
10
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 381.
 
11
James Axtell, Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 41.
 
12
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan with Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668, ed. Edwin Curley (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994), 57.
 
13
See, for example, Steven Kautz, Liberalism and Community (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1995), 35.
 
14
Smith, Theory, 98, 105.
 
Metadata
Title
Are Universities Liberal or Socratic?
Author
Jonathan Marks
Publication date
03-12-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 6/2019
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-019-00420-2

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