Ethics

1. What place does amusement have in the England of Brave New World? What about leisure?

2. Why wouldn’t the citizens of Huxley’s Brave New World enjoy or understand a tragedy, like Shakespeare’s Othello? (Remember Aristotle’s explanation of tragedy.)

3. Would you want to live in the world Huxley describes? Or step into Nozick’s “Experience Machine?”

https://archive.org/details/ost-english-brave_new_world_aldous_huxley/page/n0

Required Reading: Chapters 1-4, Chapter 11 (especially the last several pages about “the feelies”), and Chapters 16 and 17.