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119

See Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Volume III, p. 128.

120

See Plato, Symposium, in Great Books of the Western World, Volume 7 (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952), pp. 167, 210.

121

In the climactic battle of The Matrix Revolutions, Agent Smith, with characteristic disgust, similarly tells Neo that “only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love.” See James Lawler, “Only Love Is Real: Heidegger, Plato and the Matrix Trilogy,” in William Irwin, ed., More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded (Chicago: Open Court, 2005).

122

G.W.F. Hegel, translated by A.V. Miller, Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977) §178-184. All other Hegel citations will be from this edition, with the relevant sections in the text.

123

Ibid., §186

124

Ibid., §187

125

Ibid., p. 111.

126

Hegel’s Dialectic of Desire and Recognition: Texts and Commentaries, edited by John O’Neill (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996), p. 55.

127

Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, p. 119.

128

See Chapter 14 in this volume, which also discusses the Emperor’s use of fear in governing.

129

For a discussion of Luke’s faith in his father and its effect on Vader, turn to Chapter 17 in this volume.

130

See Philip Pettit, Republicanism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

131

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses, translated by G.D.H. Cole (London: Dent, 1973), quoted in part in Michael Rosen and Jonathan Wolff, eds., Political Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 62.

132

You can read a defense of the idea that droids are deserving of equal treatment in Chapter 10 of this volume.

133

Aristotle, Politics 1295a20-23, translated by B. Jowett, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2, edited by J. Barnes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 2056.

134

Niccolò Machiavelli, selections from The Prince, in Michael Curtis, ed., The Great Political Theories, Volume 1 (New York: Avon, 1981), p. 222.

135

Plutarch, Parallel Lives: “Solon,” quoted in Readings in Ancient History: From Gilgamesh to Diocletian, second edition (Lexington: Heath, 1976), p. 151.

136

Leo Strauss, “The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy,” in Liberalism Ancient and Modern (New York: Basic Books, 1968), p. 28.

137

John Dewey, “Individuality, Equality and Superiority,” in John Dewey: The Middle Works, 1899-1925. Volume 13 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983), p. 297.

138

John Dewey, “Creative Democracy: The Task Before Us” in John Dewey: The Later Works, 1925-1952. Volume 14 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988), p. 227.

139

See the interview with Shadia Drury: http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-77-1542.jsp.

140

I am grateful to Jason Eberl, Keith Decker, Robert Arp, Bill Irwin, and Suzanne Decker for reading and commenting on this chapter. This wise “Jedi Council” helped to improve it in crucial ways.

141

Aristotle, Physics, translated by Richard Hope (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961), 194b12.

142

Ibid., 193b9-12.

143

Aristotle, De anima, translated by J.A. Smith, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, edited by Jonathan Barnes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 414a28-b20.

144

Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by Hugh Lawson-Tankred (London: Penguin, 1998), 1028b33-1029a7.

145

Aristotle, Politics, translated by Ernest Barker (Oxford: Clarendon, 1946), 1253b35.

146

Aristotle, Parts of Animals, translated by A.L. Peck (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, revised edition 1945), 645a29-31; 645a23.

147

For further discussions of Yoda as a “Zen master” and a “Stoic sage,” see Chapters 2 and 3 in this volume.

148

For further discussion of the “personhood” of R2-D2 and C-3PO, see Chapter 10 in this volume.

149

Aristotle, Physics, 199b10.

150

See Etienne Gilson, The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (New York: Scribner’s, 1937); Peter Geach, God and the