PHIL 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Public Good, Voyeurism, Wendy Mcelroy

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2075
• Professor: Carol Bigwood

Document Summary

Lecture 4: pornography, hate speech, freedom of speech. Depiction of sexual content with nudity: violence, illegal acts, subordination, women. Society is hyper-sexualized as pornography is easily accessible anywhere. A crucial issue is determining the effect it has on its users and those who do not use it: some issue that this may be a male issue. Some believe that it should be censored because of the impact it has on views towards women, while others believe that restrictions of pornographic is a restriction of freedom. Is pornography moral or immoral: one can argue that sex is of nature and intimate, while pornography is of public nature. It may be in the mind of the preserver o. The main question is not whether pornography is moral or immoral, but whether or not the law should regulate/control it in any way: whether it is morally justified or not. Leo graoke: argues that censorship of pornography is compatible with mill"s harm principle.