The freedom of conscience, conviction, worship and opinion

The first chapter of the paper (The freedom of thinking) deals with the origin of the freedom of thinking in ancient Greece and Rome, in the time of renaissance and reformation until the French revolution. Next chapter (The authorization of the freedom of thinking and its manifestation) pays a special attention to the justification of the authorization of the freedom of conscience, conviction, worship and opinion, and their manifestation, especially from the John Stuart Mill's point of view. Chapter three (The dilemma of the extent of the freedom of the speech) compares the arguments for and against the restriction of the freedom of the speech. This chapter comes to the result, that cum grano salis the freedom of the speech is unrestrictable. The last chapter (Résumé) summarizes the whole paper and states, that the freedom of the speech represents the authentic existence of the value of human existence. To make this value be present in everyone, must the freedom of the speech be a fair one, connected with equal conditions of practising. Only in this way the delicate legacy of the philosopher Benedict de Spinoza can be filled: "In a free state is everybody allowed to think what he wants to, and to say, what he thinks."