John the Savage manifests the kind of high, independent spirituality spoken of in "Beyond Good and Evil." However, while John seeks a more conventional, common good Nietzsche spurns any predetermined moral systems at all, and advocates an independent, emotional, and irrational wilfulness. Nietzsche's system, unlike Epictetus, is not based upon acceptance of the limits of the human condition, but seeks deeper happiness (not pleasure) in resistance. But both Epictetus and Nietzsche seek happiness, not pleasure, as well as truth, and that is what is so vital, life-sustaining, and human about their philosophy. They advocate the need for freedom and choice, and resisting easy solutions and obedience to conventional norms. While Bentham might have found a utilitarian home in Brave New World, he would not have found happiness, much less truth. Happiness is different from pleasure, it is based upon choice and engagement in the world, and necessitates some internal...
Ironically, both Epictetus and Nietzsche manifest wonder at the human condition and the awesome responsibilities of choice in search of understanding, even though John the Savage exclaims "O Brave New World! " when he first encounters the inhabitants of Huxley's modern civilization, although it is a civilization incapable of experiencing any emotion as complex as wonder.
There will always be savages, and the attraction of savagery. Huxley wrote Brave New World as a warning. Today, in the age of test-tube pregnancy, genetic manipulation, powerful drugs and the mass media, it appears that his warning has gone unheeded and that America is on the road to the scientific utopia he describes. Certainly the world of the savages has been left behind, and for good reason. Modern Americans
Brave New World: Oh Wonder! That Has Such Similar People (to us) in it! Aldous Huxley is often cited as an architect of a society that is eerily prescient of our own future. "In a number of specifics Huxley's prophecies are tellingly accurate," writes literary critic Kirkpatrick Sale, such as "the ubiquity of sports, television in hotel and hospital rooms, a general ignorance of history," and "psychology and chemistry as important change
New Look Jacket Inc. Analysis a Business Issue. New Look Jacket Inc. (NLJ) specializes in the production of Nylon Jackets and Leather Jackets. The company delivers successful financial records at the end of the 2012 fiscal year with the net income of $417,100, which is $170,850 greater than the net income budgeted for the 2012 fiscal year despite that the company operations goes through some turmoil. A more detail variance shows that
New Media What are the key challenges faced by public relations practitioners today in relation to the use of new media? Social media has transformed the way in which companies conduct businesses and market themselves. Traditional media strategies such as news releases and media kits have become outmoded, falling out of favor and replaced by strategies such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs (Waters, Tindall and Morton 2010). This paper begins with an
World War I was believed to be the last general war that this world had to go through. Due to massive losses during the first major conflict, people believed that no country will ever want such an event to happen. However, twenty years after the Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War caused the death of many more people than the first. Unlike
World War II in the Context of History and Modern Warfare The 20th Century was simultaneously a Century of exceptional advancement and unsurpassed violence. Why was this a Century of incomparable violence? The quick answer is that we, as a human race, used many of our advancements to become far more efficient killers; where advancements of prior centuries allowed armies to kill tens of thousands, the advancements of the 20th Century
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