Philosophical concept

Frank speech

Parrhesia is frank speech that says what must be said despite personal risk or social discomfort.

Works
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Passages
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Thinkers
3
Traditions
3

Understand uses of the concept

Parrhesia is frank speech that says what must be said despite personal risk or social discomfort.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 4 passages across 4 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Alexander, On Anger. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: parrhesia, parrêsia, frank speech

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. AlexanderPlutarch · 0 passages
  3. On AngerSeneca · 0 passages