Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Jan 24, 2020 ends and means 1937 in 1919, literary critic and garsingtonadjacent intellectual john middleton murry was reorganizing the literary magazine athenaeum and invited huxley to join the staff. The present essay focuses on huxleys ends and means 1937, which, by mertons own appraisal, played a very great part in his conversion. The book contains illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics, and was cited as a major influence on thomas merton in his autobiography, the seven storey mountain. Its description of the rise of dictators and nationalism and what huxley correctly thought to be the run up to war has some unnerving parallels with the global situation in 2018. Aldous huxley was born into a prominent intellectual family in godalming, england, in 1894. During that period of his life, huxley also married maria nys, a belgian refugee who was at garsington. An inquiry into the nature of ideals and into the methods employed for their realization harper and brothers publishers, new york and london, 1937, fifth edition, p. The worship of one god has been abandoned in favour of the ends and means worship of such local divinities as the nation, the class and even the deified individual. An inquiry into the nature of ideals by huxley, aldous isbn. Aldous ehuxleys ends and means is a volume certain to be discussed over intellectual dinner tables for many months to come.
Beginning in this period, huxley began to write and edit nonfiction works on pacifist issues, including ends and means, an encyclopedia of pacifism, and pacifism and philosophy, and was an active member of the peace pledge union. An inquiry into the nature of ideals and into the methods employed for their realization by huxley, aldous seller carpe diem fine books. Pdf aldous huxley ends and means timea szabo academia. Such is the world in which we find ourselves a world which, judged by the only acceptable criterion of progress, is manifestly in regression. It is written with the lucidity and view full article in timesmachine. Ends and means an enquiry into the nature of ideals and into the methods employed for their realization is a book of essays written by aldous huxley. Ends and means by aldous huxley learning english together. In this article below, aldous huxley, a long time friend and pupil of fm alexander, encapsulates the essence of alexanders work. To some extent, of course, this is true of every thought and aspiration that. Aldous huxley admits motive for antitheistic bias answers. An inquiry into the nature of ideals and into the methods employed for their realization. An inquiry into the nature of ideals and into methods. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read ends and means. As merton wrote, it is important to show that the huxley in ends and means is not so new after all, because the accusation implies no small inconsistency on his part.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Definition of a means to an end in the idioms dictionary. Aldous huxley ends and means an inquiry into the nature of. This book presents the authors conception of a philosophy of life that he feels will alone save mankind from the evils of war, poverty, and the lust of power. The book contains illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics, and was cited as a major influence on thomas merton in his autobiography, the seven. It is, as fm said, learning to face things that put us wrong and deal with them differently.
Ends and means is a penetrating expose of such methods and practices and of the delusions they are fastening on the minds of men. Lewis, and the assassination of jfk november 22, 1963. Huxleys ends and mean revisited thomas merton center. This is damning evidence of an evil man, who knowingly and with malice aforethought denies the existence of god, not based on any evidence or reasoning, but to ensure that he can justify in his own mind doing evil things. The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. Ronald hope i was sixteen when aldous huxleys ends and means was published, and a year older when it came my way in the public library. Huxley scaled walls of national and continental ignorance and prejudice and came upon ideals based upon belief in a spiritual reality underlying the phenomenal world, and in a self motivated by such a conception, that stands in. Means, ends, and ethics for a brave new world ethicism medium. Though resembling a treatise, ends and means is more aptly seen as a twopart tract. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. In his search for the noblest ends that men have sought and the noblest means they have used to achieve them, mr.
The pure love of truth is always mingled to some extent with the need, conciously or unconciously felt by even the noblest and the most intelligent philosophers aldous huxley ends and means, 1937, p. Ixi concerns itself with practical solutions to the major. Mar 25, 2019 aldous huxley, the philosopher best known for the dystopian novel brave new world, adds that the means qualify the ends. On the other hand, if we value something terminallyintrinsically, an increase of it is. Ends and means 1937 in 1919, literary critic and garsingtonadjacent intellectual john middleton murry was reorganizing the literary magazine athenaeum and invited huxley to join the staff. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Publication date 1938 topics sv collection digitallibraryindia. Julian huxley and aldous huxley, aldous huxley, 18941963. Huxley argues beautifully, proving yes, proving through logical reasoning that you cannot achieve good ends with bad means. Hesperides press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Humanism as religion, and died the same day as christian apologist c. Valuing x only instrumentally means that there are logically possible situations where an increase in x is, all else being equal, not something we care about. The book contains illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics, and was cited as a major influence on thomas merton in his autobiography. Good ends, as i have frequently to point out, can be achieved only by the employment of appropriate means.
Buy ends and means by aldous huxley online at alibris. Aldous huxley project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Means, ends, and ethics for a brave new world ethicism. Aldous huxley was a british novelist who wrote brave new world 1932, and was a grandson of darwins bulldog, t. This is a book every elected official, political appointee, and judge should be required to read before taking office. Jun 18, 2019 aldous huxley was born into a prominent intellectual family in godalming, england, in 1894. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Aldous huxley examines common issues in a unique fashion. I was just reading a very aged copy of aldous huxleys ends and means 1938 subtitled an enquiry into the nature of ideals and into the method employed for their realization in which huxley asks a common question of what is the society we ideally want and, if that were knowable, what would we logically do for its creation. Maria huxley seems to have found keeping gerald heards life simple a very complicated business. How can the regression in charity through which we are living, and for which each one of us is in some measure responsible, be halted and reversed. The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.
This is the difference between means and ends, or between instrumental values and terminal values. Unhappily, they cannot agree on the religion to which the return should be made. For it is clear that each one of these contradictory ideals is the fruit of particular social circumstances. Aldous leonard huxley 26 july 1894 22 november 1963 was an english writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the huxley family he was best known for his novels including brave new world, set in a dystopian london, and for nonfiction books, such as the doors of perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wideranging output of essays. Ends and means was published in 1937 in the run up to world war ii. Aldous huxley 18941963 english novelist, essayist and critic ends and means 1937. Aldous huxley on religious faith and ethics there are some who believe that no desirable change of heart can be brought about without supernatural aid. Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose. For an amusing account of huxleys and heards travellings in the usa at this time, see sybille bedfords biography, pp. To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. Oct 27, 2014 aldous huxley on religious faith and ethics there are some who believe that no desirable change of heart can be brought about without supernatural aid. Many will find solace in ends and means, while others will find the book only a case study of the relationship of ethics to politics. English author of novels, essays and short stories. His bestknown work is his prophetic brave new world 1932.
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