Monday 8/24/15 Early Out Schedule

*Watch the anime version of "Yoshimi" 
Anime Version of "Yoshimi"

1. Have "Omelas" homework out and ready to discuss.
2. Answer this question for Journal # 3 "Omelas" on the back of your homework and turn in by the end of the period.

"The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas" Question

"The central idea of this psychomyth, the scapegoat", writes Le Guin, "turns up in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, and several people have asked me, rather suspiciously, why I gave the credit to William James. When I met it in James' 'The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life,' it was with a shock of recognition" (Le Guin).
The quote from William James is:
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs, Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a specifically and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? 


Do modern societies, in the interest of maximizing the happiness of the majority, contain the same kinds of trade-offs that we see in Omelas?

3. Collect any absent work (football players) from Friday

HW=
1. Bring your tablet charged and have it on and ready to go at the beginning of class on Tuesday and Wednesday.
2. There will be a sub on Wednesday because I will be at a training here on campus.  Please be on your best behavior or I will assign a hefty class assignment for the next time I am required to have a sub.