![]() ![]() The article does not recognize the social provenance of opinions Significant obstacles to access to information are media and frontiers. Interference” (is education interference?), and that the only It also suggests that opinions can somehow be held “without Of as two separate rights: intellectual freedom per se, and freedom ofĮxpression. ![]() This article conflates what are sometimes thought Article 19 of of the Human RightsĮveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. The definition adopted by, for example, the Canadian Federation of To begin with, we should look at the United Nationsĭeclaration of Human Rights definition of intellectual freedom, which is The principle of intellectual freedom not from a Marxist, but from a Obscure underlying - often unconscious - social and political values,īut for the sake of argument, what I want to do here is to interrogate Such a separation is impossible in practice, and that promotion of anĪbstract or neutral conception of freedom merely serves to hide or Material realities in an attempt to intervene in real social, political,Īnd material relationships and processes. My main criticism is that this view employs anĪbstract value - “freedom” - divorced from social, political, and Intellectual freedom, a view which arises out of a mainly unquestioned On this blog I am very critical of what I see as a hegemonic view of ![]()
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