In the Maze of Freedom and Responsibility of Speech

Abstract

Freedom and responsibility constitute one of the basic issues of ethical reflection concerning ontological foundations for human activity which clearly testify to conditio humana of a human being and, especially, to the quality of his humanity. Moving around the maze between freedom and responsibility of speech emphasizes the obverse and reverse of the complexity of the contemporary problems. The deliberations in the adopted axiological perspective inclined one to recognize that the right to free speech is only of some value when a human being also takes the responsibility which – being permanently rooted in the anthroposherical universum – accompanies the rationally comprehended conditio humana.