Freedom of Speech of an Academic Teacher: Some Conceptual Clarifications and a Landscape of Challenges
Freedom of Speech of an Academic Teacher: Some Conceptual Clarifications and a Landscape of Challenges

Summary/Abstract: In presenting this special issue of the "Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej Journal of the Polish Section of IVR", we would like not only to briefly introduce the contents of the individual articles that make up this volume but also to attempt to outline the field of research we are entering We will pursue these tasks in the following order In the introductory section (1), we present the reasons why we believe that it is important and necessary today to address the titular issue After that, we move on to clarifying one of the terms in the title of this volume, namely "academic teacher" (2) Next, we discuss the relationship between the concepts of "freedom of speech" and "academic freedom," pointing out, in line with subject literature, that this relationship is much less obvious than it may seem at first glance (3) Subsequently, we propose dividing the spheres of academic expression into three complementary areas, while emphasizing the preliminary and provisional nature of the distinction introduced (4) In the following section (5), we outline one of the most fundamental disputes in the field of academic freedom, which can be described as the opposition between activism and passivism In the last section (6), we review the contents of the articles included in this volume

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