Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

Table of contents

• Star Wars and Philosophy i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Heroes of Rogue Squadron xi
• The Force Is with You … but You're Not a Jedi Yet xiii
• Part I - "May the Force Be with You" the Philosophical Messages of Star Wars 1
• 2: Stoicism in the Stars: Yoda, the Emperor, and the Force 16
• 3: The Far East of Star Wars 29
• 4: Moral Ambiguity in a Black-And-White Universe 39
• Part II - "Try Not—do or Do Not" Ethics in a Galaxy, Far, Far Away 55
• 5: The Aspiring Jedi's Handbook of Virtue 57
• 6: "A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy": Star Wars and the Problem of Evil 69
• 7: "Be Mindful of the Living Force": Environmental Ethics in Star Wars 80
• 8: Send in the Clones: the Ethics of Future Wars 93
• Part III - [Don't Call Me a Mindless Philosopher!] Alien Technologies and the Metaphysics of the Force 105
• 9: A Technological Galaxy: Heidegger and the Philosophy of Technology in Star Wars 107
• 10: "If Droids Could Think": Droids as Slaves and Persons 120
• 11: "Size Matters Not": the Force as the Causal Power of the Jedi 132
• 12: The Force is with Us: Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit Strikes Back at the Empire 144
• Part IV - "There's Always a Bigger Fish" Truth, Faith, and a Galactic Society 157
• 13: "What is Thy Bidding, My Master?": Star Wars and the Hegelian Struggle for Recognition 159
• 14: By Any Means Necessary: Tyranny, Democracy, Republic, and Empire 168
• 15: Humanizing Technology: Flesh and Machine in Aristotle and the Empire Strikes Back 181
• 16: "A Certain Point of View": Lying Jedi, Honest Sith, and the Viewers Who Love Them 192
• 17: Religious Pragmatism Through the Eyes of Luke Skywalker 205
• Masters of the Jedi Council 213
• The Phantom Index 217

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