LIBA 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Totalitarianism, Knowledge Economy
8 Feb 2018
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Liba 202 wed nov 9: utilitarian view. -mill did not have a narrowly economic argument about the good. -when we take utilities of humanities into consideration, we must take into consideration its wider value: happiness. We need to take the wider view of what is useful. -she treats the utility/economic argument as a subsidiary argument. -if we focus on usefulness, we will destroy education; education may be useful, but those are collateral affects. -if we adopt the utilitarian argument, all others will be destroyed. -problem: we are living in a world where the key logic = economic advantage. -and while there may be economic gain via humanities, this logic destroys education because it creates a totalitarian argument; she argues for a pluralistic approach. -mill: recognizes that the humanities is what brought him happiness. -problem: the notion of utility shows up in two places: economic advantage and happiness.
