Hate speeches in well-ordered societies and real societies
Robson Vitor Freitas Reis, Nágila Analy Freitas Reis, Ruy Freitas Reis · REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS · 2025
This article aims to address the subject of free speech, in particular we will work on the issue of hate speech. To achieve this purpose, we will use as a theoretical framework the work of the political philosopher John Rawls, specifically we will analyse, in a more depth way, the considerations made by Jeremy Waldron, in the book The Harm in Hate Speech, about the Rawlsian concept of well-ordered societies aiming to justify regulations on freedom of expression. Regulations that have the propose to restrict this kind of discourses and thereby ensure a more substantive democracy.