Main Idea: Nozick’s Experience Machine lends a critical perspective to hedonism. Questions: (a) What is the Experience Machine? How does it work? (b) Application: Identify a situation in your life that you might want to use the Experience Machine to explore. (c) Explain why you would not plug in to the machine. For the purposes […]
Research Essay/Case Study Assessment briefing: You will write a 3,000-word essay on a topic of your own devising, relevant to module themes. (deontology, hedonism, care ethics, artificial intelligence, democracy, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, eudaimonia…) Remember to focus on the behaviour of media professionals with regard to the issue you have chosen, and on the ethical debates […]
Watch “The Shawshank Redemption, a 1994 film directed by Frank Darabont. For this option, you are required analyze the film in terms of the taxonomy of happiness (Hedonism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Buddhism). What elements of the movie offer different versions of happiness for the main character Andy and for the narrator Red? How does happiness change […]
