World Humanist Congress: Plenary One - A.C. Grayling on Freedom of speech and freedom as such
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2025
- World Humanist Congress | Freedom of thought and expression: Forging a 21st century enlightenment
Plenary Session One
Freedom of speech and freedom as such
A.C. Grayling | Chair: Pavan Dhaliwal
A C Grayling a Vice President of the BHA, a representative of IHEU to the UN, and a patron of the Defence Humanists, he is a world renowned humanist philosopher. In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British philosophical association, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.
The World Humanist Congress, held every three years, is a unique event bringing together humanists from over forty countries under the auspices of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. In August 2014 the British Humanist Association hosted the World Humanist Congress in the beautiful and historic city of Oxford.
Edited by: Charlotte John
Additional thanks to: Jon Bagge, Craig Duncan, Jason Weidner and Jade Hoffman.
A subject I have often pondered on and Grayling has explained it well. Thank you for this.
This is a very important talk. Grayling is like an engineer explaining society's basic stability points. If you haven't listened yet, it's worthwhile.
Thanks
Always lovely to hear Grayling speak. Like beautiful music, his words are so soothing and full of wisdom.
16:00 I don't think he's quite right on that one. Most people I know, don't have a choice about politics or religion or any other ideology they've been brought up with from an early age. The brain absorbs as a child and afterwards, it's quite hard to let go and wonder into the unknown. It is reasonable to call it human nature. After all, people are meant to survive and breed, not to have doubts all the time. So people just mindlessly repeat the same tape over and over again and it takes great skill to talk them out of the ideology ingrained into them. The one exception is with people who have been subjected to rational inquiry over and over again and that happens very rarely.
TechnocraticBushman, you're both right. In the grand scheme of things, you're right, free will doesn't exist, and therefore 'choice' is an illusory construct that we agree by consensus exists. In practical terms, we agree that 'choice' comes from a will in our heads called the ego. Therefore, yes, no-one has a 'choice' about their ideological conditioning, but if we believe we do, we can change it.
My concentration is fragile ... the intermittent grinding noise imposed in the background has ruined this video ... I'm going to sue.