Star Wars and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy Series) - Kevin Decker [0]
Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: William Irwin
Title Page
Dedication
Heroes of Rogue Squadron
The Force Is with You . . . but You’re Not a Jedi Yet
Part I - “May The Force Be with You”
Chapter 1 - “You Cannot Escape Your Destiny” (Or Can You?): Freedom and ...
“Clouded This Boy’s Future Is”
“Everything Is Proceeding as I Had Foreseen”
“He’s Got to Follow His Own Path”
“This One a Long Time Have I Watched”
Chapter 2 - Stoicism in the Stars: Yoda, the Emperor, and the Force
Appearance versus Reality: Jester or Jedi Master?
Stoicism and the Virtues of the Sage
The Logic of the Dark Side
“Control, Control, You Must Learn Control”
Chapter 3 - The Far East of Star Wars
“Looking? Found Someone You Have”
“Don’t Give In to Hate: That Leads to the Dark Side”
“Great Warrior? Wars Not Make One Great”
Chapter 4 - Moral Ambiguity in a Black-and-White Universe
“What Good’s a Reward if You Ain’t Around to Use It?”
“This Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time”
“Together . . . We Can Destroy the Sith”
“I’m a Jedi . . . I Know I’m Better Than This”
“You Know . . . What They’re Up Against”
Part II - “Try Not—Do or Do Not”
Chapter 5 - The Aspiring Jedi’s Handbook of Virtue
The Old Republic and the Older Republic
A Balancing Act
Entering the Deep, Dark Cave
The Right Kind of Love
Is Brainwashing Ethically Sanitary?
The Jedi Model
Chapter 6 - “A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy”: Star Wars and the Problem ...
Something Wicked This Way Comes. But From Whence Does It Come?
“One All-Powerful Force Controlling Everything”
“If Once You Start Down the Dark Path . . .”
The Fate of Evil after the Overthrow of the Empire
Chapter 7 - “Be Mindful of the Living Force”: Environmental Ethics in Star Wars
Wookiees and Mynocks and Hutts, Oh My!
Value in Nature
“May The Force Be with You”: Lessons from the Jedi
“Mudhole? Slimy? My Home This Is”: Jedi Living in the Natural World
Culture versus Nature
Restoring Balance to the Force
Chapter 8 - Send In the Clones: The Ethics of Future Wars
Cloning Gets a Bum Rap
Getting into Your Genes
Different Strokes for Different Folks
War: What Is It Good For?
To Be All You Can Be, or Not?—That Is the Question
Send in the Clones!
Part III - “Don’t Call Me a Mindless Philosopher!”
Chapter 9 - A Technological Galaxy: Heidegger and the Philosophy of Technology ...
Heidegger on Technology
“An Elegant Weapon”: The Lightsaber as Ready-To-Hand
Yoda as Being-in-the-Dagobah System
Enframing and the Eye of the Empire
The Enframing of Anakin Skywalker
Only a Jedi Can Save Us: Forgetting and Recollecting
Chapter 10 - “If Droids Could Think . . .”: Droids as Slaves and Persons
“He’s Quite Clever, You Know . . . For a Human Being”
“If Droids Could Think, There’d Be None of Us Here, Would There?”
“I Am Fluent in Over Six Million Forms of Communication”
“You’ve Been a Great Pal . . . I’ll Make Sure Mom Doesn’t Sell You”
It’s Not Our Lot in Life!
Chapter 11 - “Size Matters Not”: The Force as the Causal Power of the Jedi
The Source of the Jedi’s Power
“Size Matters Not”
The Power that Keeps On Giving
“There’s [Not] One All-Powerful Force Controlling Everything”
“May The Force Be with You”
Chapter 12 - The Force Is with Us: Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit Strikes Back at ...
Mythic Journey of the Hero
Spirit: Hegel’s Distillation of the History of Religion
Anakin Skywalker as the Chosen One
The Force of Love
Part IV - “There’s Always a Bigger Fish”
Chapter 13 - “What Is Thy Bidding, My Master?”: Star Wars and the Hegelian ...
Masters and Slaves: Who Rules Whom?
An Empire of Fear and Trembling
Chapter 14 - By Any Means Necessary: Tyranny, Democracy, Republic, and Empire
Galactic Politics for Dummies
Fear as an Ally
Power in the Hands of the Virtuous Few
Palpatine’s Legacy
Chapter 15 - Humanizing Technology: Flesh and Machine in Aristotle and The ...
“I Am Fluent in Six Million Forms of Communication”
“I Thought They Smelled Bad on the Outside”
“Luminous Beings Are We . . . Not This Crude Matter”
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