Brave New World is intended as a critique of utilitarianism
Yes. I thought it would be clear that I knew that, since I don’t think my statement makes any sense otherwise?
I found Brave New World, in so far as it is taken as an illustration of a philosophical point, actively unhelpful; that is, its existence is detrimental to the quality of philosophical discussions about the merits of utilitarianism (basically for all the usual reasons that fictional evidence is bad; it leads people to assume that a utilitarian society would behave in a certain way, or that certain behaviors would have certain outcomes, simply because that was what happened in Brave New World).
(Independently, I found it interesting and enjoyable as a work of fiction).
Yes. I thought it would be clear that I knew that, since I don’t think my statement makes any sense otherwise?
I found Brave New World, in so far as it is taken as an illustration of a philosophical point, actively unhelpful; that is, its existence is detrimental to the quality of philosophical discussions about the merits of utilitarianism (basically for all the usual reasons that fictional evidence is bad; it leads people to assume that a utilitarian society would behave in a certain way, or that certain behaviors would have certain outcomes, simply because that was what happened in Brave New World).
(Independently, I found it interesting and enjoyable as a work of fiction).