Brave New World, Plato’s Republic, and Today’s Scientific Regime

Matthew J. Franck

The project of perfect justice in which each of us is a “cell in the social body” is not within our grasp.

Or is it? Aldous Huxley makes us think this question through again. The modern devotion to the mastery of nature — including the mastery of human nature — may make Socrates’ ironic project a horrifying possibility.

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