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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a social novel that criticizes the negative impacts of industrialization on society, focusing on the lives of workers and the dehumanizing effects of utilitarianism.
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a social novel that criticizes the negative impacts of industrialization on society, focusing on the lives of workers and the dehumanizing effects of utilitarianism.
This lesson discusses utilitarianism and how it can be used to decide between saving two groups of passengers in an interstellar disaster, considering their age and the amount of life they have lived. It also touches on the idea that those who are worse off should be given priority, and the suggestion to flip a coin in order to give each individual an equal chance of being saved.
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