Star Wars and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy Series) - Kevin Decker [111]
Sifo-Dyas, Master
sin
Singer, Peter
Sith Lords
skepticism
Skywalker, Anakin . See also Vader, Darth
Skywalker, Luke
Skywalker, Shmi
Slave One
slavery
social relationships
Socrates
and the “Noble Lie,”
Sohei
Soho, Takuan
Solo, Han
Solon
Sony’s mechanical dog
soul
tripartite (Aristotle)
species
speciesism
Spaceballs (film)
Spirit (Hegel)see also Absolute Spirit
spirits
“standing reserve,”
Stoicism
Stoic sage
stormtroopers, Imperial
Strauss, Leo
substance
divine
primary (Aristotle)
suffering
Sumeria
supernatural
Swift, Jonathan
symbiosis
synthetics (Aliens)
tao
Taoism
Tao Te Ching
Tarkin, Grand Moff
Tarot
Tatooine
Tauntauns
technology
as art and craft
telekinesis
telos
Templars
terrorism
Tesshu
Thales
theology
thinking
threats, manufactured
Threepio. See C-3PO
TIE fighters, Imperial
time
as measure of motion
future
past
present
timeliness, virtue of
Tin Woodsman
Tolkien, J.R.R.
tools
torture
Trade Federation
tragedy
Greek
moral
training, Jedi
traits, genetically determined
Transcendentalism, American
Tricksters
trust
truth
factual
Tusken Raiders. See Sand People
Tyrannus, Darth. See Dooku, Count
tyranny
Ueshiba, Morihei
understanding
spiritual
“Unhappy Conscience” (Hegel)
uniformity, principle of
unity
utilitarianism
Vader, Darth . See also Anakin Skywalker
value
absolute
instrumental
intrinsic
Veatch, Henry
vice
violence
criteria for permissible
virtue
virtue ethics
voting
virtues, Stoic
Walkers, Imperial. See AT-AT Walkers
wampa
war
civil
as inherently bad
moral justification of
Watto
Wesell, Zam
Wicket the Ewok
will
freedom of
“will to power” (Nietzsche)
Williams, Bernard
Williams, John
Windu, Mace
wisdom
Wizard of Oz, The
womp rats
Wookiees
Wordsworth, William
Wu Wei
WWE Smackdown
X-wing fighters
Yavin Four
yin and yang
Yoda
Yoga
Yoshiaki
younglings
zazen
Zen Buddhism
Zeno of Citium
1
Although known to only a few, even Chewbacca voices this sentiment in the Boba Fett-driven cartoon segment of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special.
2
Actually, this is a wonder entertained only by Marxists studying Das Kapital. And so we doubt that it applies to many of you.
3
This question was much entertained at cocktail parties on Alderaan right up until the tragic and unexpected events of A New Hope.
4
The fact that George Lucas recasts what Star Wars is really about with the three prequel films—from the mythic hero-journey of Luke Skywalker to the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker—is evidence of Lucas’s own fascination with issues of fate and moral responsibility.
5
See Linda Zagzebski, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 33-34.
6
See Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation, edited and translated by Timothy McDermott (Allen: Christian Classics, 1989), p. 23; Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, “Eternity,” Journal of Philosophy 78 (1981): pp. 429-457.
7
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, p. 41.
8
Augustine, On Free Choice of the Will, translated by Anna S. Benjamin and L.H. Hackstaff (New York: Macmillan, 1964), Book III, §4.
9
Note that free-will libertarians are not the same as political libertarians.
10
No one is completely free, because we’re all subject to the laws of gravity and inertia, the impulse to satisfy our hunger and thirst, the drive to seek pleasure and avoid pain, and so on.
11
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1695), edited by Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975), Book II, Chapter 21, §10.
12
Augustine, Free Choice, Book I, §1.
13
Ibid., Book I, §4. Augustine is setting quite a high standard for morality here.
14
Interview in “The Return of Darth Vader” documentary included on the bonus disc of the original Star Wars Trilogy DVD release (2004).
15
Augustine, Free Choice, Book I, §16. For more on the origin of evil according to Augustine and others, see Chapter 6 in this volume.
16
Ibid., Book III, §17.
17
I’m most grateful to Jennifer