Professor Sir Richard Sorabji
  • PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD SORABJI
    • Awards
    • Personal
    • History of employment
  • Biography
  • BOOKS
    • Gandhi and the Stoics
    • Opening Doors
    • Book reviews
    • Principle articles
  • COMMENTATOR TRANSLATIONS
  • PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
  • PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD SORABJI
    • Awards
    • Personal
    • History of employment
  • Biography
  • BOOKS
    • Gandhi and the Stoics
    • Opening Doors
    • Book reviews
    • Principle articles
  • COMMENTATOR TRANSLATIONS
  • PODCASTS AND VIDEOS

Professor Sir Richard Sorabji

FBA, American, Flemish and 'European' Academies, Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
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Professor Sir Richard Sorabji has published 15 books, edited or co-edited 11 and provided two book-length series of interviews. The Commentator Translations have reached 106 Volumes, translating into English from the largest surviving body of Greek literature, the ancient Greek re-interpretations of Aristotle from 0 to 600 CE, with subsequent 12th century revivals. He continues to study, write and lecture.
Sorabji has very much enjoyed his teaching career and he keeps contact with many of his 53 former PhD students. He has also enjoyed lecturing abroad and making Philosophy accessible to the general public by teaching at home at Morley College and at Gresham College and elsewhere.

Sorabji’s writing on Philosophy and its History covers three main areas, the physics of the universe, the mind and social and ethical problems. He started in ancient Greek Philosophy but his interests spread from there to many other periods and cultures. He is currently working on his forthcoming book, Freedom of Speech, History, Boundaries, Problems, Recommendations.
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FORTHCOMING 2021

​Freedom of Speech and Expression:
Its History, Its Value, Its Good Use and Its Misuse

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 In this book on freedom of speech and expression, I will start with an inter-cultural history of this valued right and then recall why we rightly value it. But the freedom has some legal boundaries. Should we use our cherished right, so long as the law allows? No, the very values we place on it should sometimes lead to voluntary self-restraint. The legal boundaries anyhow are not always easy to frame, and in our latest crisis on social media, it is not easy to find or impose the right legal alternatives. Solutions? Image by John Leech, from: The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett. Bradbury, Evans & Co, London, 1850s Disraeli (as Cicero) denouncing W. E. Gladstone (as Catiline
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Professor Sir Richard Sorabji in conversation through the ages

A seven part series, put together by Orde Levinson, of conversations with Professor Sir Richard Sorabji. Sorabji talks with seven conversationalists from twelve years old to seventy. The piece is entirely unedited and informal and offers insights into Sorabji's thoughts on a variety of topics brought to him in conversation across the dinner table. ​
PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD SORABJI
Awards
Personal
History of employment
BIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
Gandhi and the Stoics
Opening doors
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Book reviews
Principle articles
COMMENTATOR TRANSLATIONS
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PODCASTS AND VIDEOS
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  • PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD SORABJI
    • Awards
    • Personal
    • History of employment
  • Biography
  • BOOKS
    • Gandhi and the Stoics
    • Opening Doors
    • Book reviews
    • Principle articles
  • COMMENTATOR TRANSLATIONS
  • PODCASTS AND VIDEOS