{"id":48228,"date":"2023-06-08T18:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48228"},"modified":"2023-06-08T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:10:44","slug":"hypermoralism-kills-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/hypermoralism-kills-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypermoralism Kills Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"As part of its series on Humanity, Development and the Future, the Mahle Foundation invited the philosopher and journalist Alexander Grau, who has been critical for some time of the current \u201chypermorality\u201d. Grau speaks of the victory of morality over reason and wonders if we are dealing with a modern form of the inquisition. Below are a few passages from and about the conversation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe like to make the point that Germany is a country that guarantees freedom of speech. Anyone questioning this is seen as a suspicious person, casting doubt on the legitimacy of our democracy. Legislation, after all, ensures the freedom of the press, and there is no censorship. But does it really need a dictatorship to curtail freedom of speech? Referring to Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Alexande<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its series on Humanity, Development and the Future, the Mahle Foundation invited the philosopher and journalist Alexander Grau, who has been critical for some time of the current \u201chypermorality\u201d. Grau speaks of the victory of morality over reason and wonders if we are dealing with a modern form of the inquisition. Below are a few passages from and about the conversation. We like to make the point that Germany is a country that guarantees freedom of speech. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9153,"featured_media":47240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8838],"tags":[11329,8824],"class_list":["post-48228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-time-issues","tag-2023-18-en","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}