Comparison Between Brave New World and Freuds Future of...

Freud and the Brave New World: Science can replace religion as a means of creating a stable civilization. This is what Sigmund Freud believes, and this is what Aldous Huxley tries to prove. Freud in his Future of an Illusion states that religion allows men to act according to reason, and not their instincts. People are taught with a religious background and are taught about a balance of crime and punishment. Punishment will be cast upon men if men are unable to control their instincts and commit a crime. However, those who are not taught in a religious way see no reason to act according to reason just for God. In fact, they fight their instincts for another morality that they are taught. Similarly, if science was taught as a moral†¦show more content†¦The State can then use these technologies to create and alter babies and their minds. In addition, the State also uses science to create complicated entertainment machines that can generate both harmless leisure and high levels of consumption and pr oduction. These machines satisfy the peoples needs and reduce any kind of rebellious thoughts. The result of these technologies gives stability and control to the State of Huxleys world. The results of these machines are part of the basis of the World States stability. Although the only science seen throughout the book is the creation of technology, the results of science is already enough to bring stability and happiness to the society. Huxley not only shows that science can replace religion, but also gives his own reasons as to why religion has no place in his world. Huxley presents his ideas through an argument between Mustapha Mond and John the Savage. When John asks him, then you think there is no God? (Huxley, 234), Mond replies, No, I think there quite probably is one (Huxley, 234). Huxley and Mond never deny that there is no God and religion. However, God manifests himself as an absence (Huxley, 234) and allows war after war to happen. God doesnt do anything to stop the wars and peoples fear, especially, in Huxleys world, the Nine Years War. In Huxleys view, God, science, and art prevent people from obtaining true happiness and stability. Therefore, Mond and hisShow MoreRelatedOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pagesothers who should know better) to trivialize this very problematic and challenging subject. This is not the case with the present book. This is a book that deserves to achieve a wide readership. Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University, UK This new textbook usefully situates organization theory within the scholarly debates on modernism and postmodernism, and provides an advanced introduction to the heterogeneous study of organizations, including chapters on phenomenology, critical theory and psychoanalysisRead MoreStrategic Marketing Management337596 Words   |  1351 PagesProfessor of Business Administration The Business School Loughborough University and Colin Gilligan Professor of Marketing Sheffield Hallam University and Visiting Professor, Northumbria University AMSTERDAM †¢ BOSTON †¢ HEIDELBERG †¢ LONDON †¢ NEW YORK †¢ OXFORD PARIS †¢ SAN DIEGO †¢ SAN FRANCISCO †¢ SINGAPORE †¢ SYDNEY †¢ TOKYO Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 First published 1992 Second edition 1997 Reprinted 1998Read MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pages........................................................................... 251 False Dilemma Fallacy....................................................................................................................... 253 Fallacy of Faulty Comparison .......................................................................................................... 256 Fallacious Appeal to Authority .....................................................................................................