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A-LIFE-WITHOUT-PAIN

A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN: NO PAIN

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A-LIFE-WITHOUT-PAIN

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  1. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN

  2. Which of the following situations would cause you the most unhappiness? Number them from 1 (most unhappy) to 6 (least unhappy) and explain why? Which of the following situations would make you happiest. Number them from 1 (most happy) to 6 (least happy). • Getting really ill • Experiencing physical pain • Losing a lot of money • Losing a job • Going to jail • Losing a romantic relationship • Falling in love • Travelling to a country you’ve always wanted to go to • Getting a great new job • Gaining a lot of money • Having children • Buying a wonderful new home

  3. Answer these questions • 1. What events in your life have made you the happiest? • 2. What events in your life have made you unhappy?

  4. Vocabulary • hedonism • to dissuade (from) • unbeknownst • infidelity • intrinsic • Inherent • Proposition • philosophical

  5. Part A: Add the following segments to the definitions below. 1

  6. Answers • 1-Meaning oflife • 2-That feellingpleasure • 3-To do something • 4-not to do • 5-Cheating ontheir • 6-Can not be removed

  7. Part B: Now put the words from Part A into the following sentences.

  8. Answers

  9. Understanding the general idea Watch the first section of the TED Talk by Bethany Rickwald and Hayley Levitt on the idea of living in happiness (00:00 - 00:50) and decide if the following statements are True or False - 1. Robert Nozick was a philosopher. 2. Robert Nozick created a special machine. 3. People using the machine will not know the difference between their experience and reality. 4. Your experiences when using the machine will mostly be positive.

  10. ComprehensionLet’s watch the rest of the video and answer the questions

  11. Vocabulary rephrasing Part A: Look at the following sentences containing words from the video. Choose the option (a-c) which best gives the meaning of the words in bold.

  12. Part B: Now complete the following sentences with a different form of words in brackets.

  13. Answer the following questions • 1. What type of food do you find the most tempting when you are hungry? • 2. What time of day is best for you if you want to maximize your ability to concentrate? • 3. What situations in the past have you found to be blissful?

  14. Discuss the following questions • What would you choose to do if you were able to plug into the Experience Machine? Would you plug in? Or not? Why? 2. If you were Betsy in the example from the video, would you want to know the truth? Or not? Why? 3. Can you think of examples of experiences you have had in the past which were negative at the time, but you took something valuable from? What were they? What happened? 4. Have the ideas in this video made you look at life in a different way? Why/Why not?

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