Kants point on privately obeying authorities and how it puts restriction on free speech. Mills points on bigotry and prejudice can lead to persecutions and how this goes against how all speech should be free.

Kant–WhatIsEnlightenment.pdfMill.pdfMill_1.pdf
 First, argue whether you think Kant’s point that we must (privately) “obey” authorities and (consented) social roles is too much a restriction on free thinking. Next, discuss why the Athenian’s demand for Melian “obedience” is something more/different than Kant’s point. Then, consider that in Ch. 2 Mill points out that “bigotry” and “prejudice” in belief can lead to “persecution” (the treatment of Socrates, and Muslims in the British Empire, are presented as cases to the point). Discuss, why this raises a difficulty against his point that all speech should be free, and how the very concern for maintaining the liberty of each to participate in a free debating public may be the value that could argue for certain limits on speech. Use references from the readings in the files.