intellectual freedom
Noun
Meaning
intellectual freedom
The freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas without restriction.
Examples
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
... to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements.