Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Anti-Utopians

Aldous Huxley
C. S. Lewis
Ross Douthat on Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis:
"In effect, both Huxley and Lewis looked at a utilitarian’s paradise — a world where all material needs are met, pleasure is maximized and pain eliminated — and pointed out what we might be giving up to get there: the entire vertical dimension in human life, the quest for the sublime and the transcendent, for romance and honor, beauty and truth."
Read the whole piece HERE.

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