下班就是上學

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Three ideas of justice
  1.  Maximise welfare
  2. Respect freedom
  3. Promote virtue
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) – Utilitarianism “greatest happiness principle”
  • The right thing to do is whatever maximise happiness (quantity) to the community as a whole (trolley)
  • Overall balance of pleasure over pain
  • Natural rights is non-sense (e.g. throwing Christian to lions for entertainment)
  • No quality distinction among pleasures (“push-pin is as good as poetry”) – all values can be measured & compared on a single scale
  • (corpse waxed on display for UCL, attend meeting “present but not voting”)
Objections against Utilitarianism 
  • Fails to respect individual rights and fails to respect dignity of human beings
  • All values can’t be captured by a common currency of values (e.g. Philip Morris, Ford Pinto – cost & benefit analysis with monetary values on human life)
JS Mill (1806-1873) – Utilitarianism can distinguish higher pleasures from lowers one
  • On Liberty (1859)
  • Can distinguish higher and lower pleasures (by quality, not just by quantity or intensity)
  • The higher pleasure are not higher because we prefer them; we prefer them because it engages our highest faculties and make us more fully human
  • Celebration of individuality
  • People should be free to do whatever they want, provided they do no harm to others
  • “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.”

New Coursera course!

January 2018 so far is great.

Re-read The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Slowly going through Justice by Michael Sandal when I have time.

And started Introduction to Psychology on Coursera!

Since my memory sucks, I don’t really remember what I have learnt. Thanks to Evernote that I can review the points. The joy is during the learning process. It’s ok to forget.

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地盤妹

今日第一次入地盤（I mean 呢個地盤）。
其實都幾震撼。

  1. 睇2D嘅layout plan其實已經滾瓜爛熟，今日真係走入呢個真實嘅3D空間，一切都可以對應返，好正。
  2. 係現場先會感受到floor plate嘅大小， ceiling height，shop depth，column size，corridor width，escalator landing 與shopfront的距離，skylight void的大小，陽光lux，以及al fresco dining嘅風景等等。
  3. 今日行咗2.5小時（當然係行樓梯，而且d樓梯 condition都係一般般，要全神貫注好專心咁行！所以好energy draining。）。
  4. 由1樓行去9樓，層層再行，然後由9樓又行返去1樓。
  5. 又戴住重重嘅頭盔，重重的安全鞋，同埋口罩。中間完全冇喝水（唔知會行咁耐），沙塵滾滾。
  6. 其實我都唔小心撞到個頭2次哈哈，好彩有頭盔。