Freedom and Truth in Public Sphere, and the Contest of Fake News: A Reflection from Kant and Hannah Arendt

Zilmara de Jesus Viana de Carvalho; Matheus Costa e Costa; Rayssa Marchão Araújo; Kamila Fernanda Barbosa Sampaio; Flávio Luiz de Castro Freitas

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss1.2884

Authors

Zilmara de Jesus Viana de Carvalho Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)
Matheus Costa e Costa Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)
Rayssa Marchão Araújo Universidade Federal do Maranhão- UFMA
Kamila Fernanda Barbosa Sampaio State University of Maranhão (UEMA)
Flávio Luiz de Castro Freitas Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss1.2884

Keywords:

Factual Truth, Politics, Lie, Freedom of Speech, Autonomy, Fake News

Abstract

It aims to address the freedom of speech issue from a Kantian point of view, based on the concepts about public use of reason and thinking for oneself, the required conditions for publicity and its relation to fair, as opposed to the unfair and the lie. Moreover, this study addresses the problem of factual truth within the political sphere linked to the use of lies in the different means of communication, and how the fake news reveal themselves as dangerous to the current democratic states, it has, regarding this point, as the main theoretical framework Hannah Arendt's teachings.

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Author Biographies

Zilmara de Jesus Viana de Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

Professor the Philosophy, Dept. of Philosophy and Graduate Program of Culture and Society, Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA)
Matheus Costa e Costa, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

Graduate Program of Culture and Society, Interdisciplinary Master, Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA)
Rayssa Marchão Araújo, Universidade Federal do Maranhão- UFMA

Graduate Program of Culture and Society, Interdisciplinary Master, Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA)
Kamila Fernanda Barbosa Sampaio, State University of Maranhão (UEMA)

Professor of the Philosophy Course, State University of Maranhão (UEMA), Brazil
Flávio Luiz de Castro Freitas, Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)

Professor of the Degree Course in Human Sciences and Graduate Program of Culture and Society, Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA)

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