[Reader-list] Conscience, freedom of conscience and freedom of speech: Lecture by Sir Richard Sorabji

[The Sarai Programme]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites you to a lecture


*    ‘Conscience, freedom of conscience **and freedom of speech’*

                                                by

*                               Sir Richard Sorabji*


*                               Vijay Tankha* will Chair


Starting with the origin of the peculiarly Greek term for conscience and
its adoption by Romans and Christians, the focus of the lecture will be on
freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. There will be some reference
to their history, to certain current mistreatments, of freedom of speech,
and to India's improvement in its law on these mistreatments. But the
question will also be raised whether there are still better ways of showing
what freedom of speech should be about.



*Sir Richard Sorabji* is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He
is author of 15 volumes of books, editor of over 100 volumes of translation
of late Greek Philosophy and editor or co-editor a further 10 volumes in
the History of Philosophy. He has written two books on India,* Gandhi and
the Stoics*, a treatment of Gandhi's philosophical thinking (Oxford), and* The
Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji: Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's
Rights in India* (Penguin India). His *Moral Conscience Through the Ages* was
published by Oxford in the UK, December 2014.



*Vijay Tankha* is the Head of the Department of Philosophy at St. Stephen’s
College, Delhi.


Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 3.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Room,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054


Please join us for tea at 3 pm