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Source Book Study Questions

Petition for Freedom of Speech (SB p. 240-41)

1.  What is the tone of this paragraph? Isn't More being "overly nice" here?  If so, why?  And is this speech a form of flattery, or an example of effective rhetoric?   

2. What are the reasons for free speech that More gives? Are these reasons primarily utilitarian, conventional, or metaphysical?

3. Would these reasons be recognized and accepted in Utopia?