Free Will
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Do the people in "Brave New World" act on their own free will? Are they any less free than we are?
Coreen Eisler
Topic IV
Philosophy Paper #2
Coreen Eisler
Topic IV
Imagine that you were born, without the comfort of parental nurturing, and were only another "twin" to many other babies that were made to be exactly like yourself (BNW, 7). In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, this was just the case. Babies were born to hatcheries, and were incubated from a fertilized egg, to an embryo, until reaching full infantry. In this world, universal happiness had been achieved. Reproduction has essentially been turned into an industry where various grades of human beings ranging from the genius Alphas to the dwarfed, moronic Epsilons, all resulting from genetic engineering and Pavlovian behavioral conditioning. Each class is conditioned and bred to love their line of work and be completely happy. Through the Bokanovsky's Process, it was possible to "[make] ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before (BNW, 6)," and where "you really [knew] where you [were]. For the first time in history...