[Popular Culture and Philosophy 09] • Harry Potter and Philosophy by Baggett, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Dedication A Few Start-of-Term Notices Abbreviations The Magic of Philosophy Gryffindor - The Characters of Harry’s World

1 - The Courageous Harry Potter

Magic and Virtue The Virtues at Hogwarts Feelings of Fear Harry’s Recipe for Courage Harry’s Big Step of Faith

2 - Dursley Duplicity: The Morality and Psychology of Self-Deception

The Arguments for Self-Deception The Self-Deceptions of the Dursleys The Lessons of Dursley Deceit A Fourth Lesson Making Sense of Positive Illusions An Honest Life

3 - Voldemort’s Agents, Malfoy’s Cronies, and Hagrid’s Chums: Friendship in ...

Voldemort’s Agents Malfoy’s Cronies: Crabbe and Goyle Hagrid’s Chums: Harry, Ron, and Hermione Aristotle’s Friends Useful Friends and Pleasant Friends Friendship in the Fullest Sense “What’s Comin’ Will Come, an’ We’ll Meet It When It Does” (GF, p. 719)

4 - Feminism and Equal Opportunity: Hermione and the Women of Hogwarts

In the Image of Her Creator Not Just One of the Guys Strength of Mind and Moral Virtue Co-education at Hogwarts Equal Opportunity Beyond Hogwarts

Hufflepuff - Morality in Rowling’s Universe

5 - Heaven, Hell, and Harry Potter

Are We Truly Happy? Is Death Really a Good Thing? So Why Not Take the Money and Run? Magical Moral Obligations Some Damned Good Reasons

6 - Magic, Science, and the Ethics of Technology

Magic, Science, and Harry Potter Interlude: Fantasy and Moral Epistemology Rowling’s Ethics of Magic Back to Reality

7 - The Mirror of Erised: Why We Should Heed Dumbledore’s Warning

The Mirror of Erised Dumbledore’s Warning Knowledge and Truth Descartes’s Dreams The Experience Machine To Plug In . . . . . . Or Not to Plug In Doing Certain Things Being a Certain Way Back to the Mirror Heeding Dumbledore’s Warning

8 - Kreacher’s Lament: S.P.E.W. as a Parable on Discrimination, Indifference, ...

Discrimination and Prejudice What Is Wrong with Prejudice? Why S.P.E.W. Doesn’t Work Indifference, Security, and Social Justice

Slytherin - Knockturn Alley and the Dark Arts

9 - Is Ambition a Virtue? Why Slytherin Belongs at Hogwarts

Aristotle and the Sorting Hat The Virtue of Slytherin House Ambition as a Virtue What We Can Learn from Slytherin House

10 - A Skewed Reflection: The Nature of Evil

Evil Doesn’t Exist Evil Protects Itself and Grows through Deception Evil Is a Result of Free Choice Seeing Clearly, Acting Bravely

11 - Voldemort, Boethius, and the Destructive Effects of Evil

Boethius and the Destructive Effects of Evil Voldemort and the Destructive Effects of Evil Voldemort and Moral Education

12 - Magic, Muggles, and Moral Imagination

The Devil Made Harry Do It What’s Wrong with Harry? Answering the Moral Charge Is Hogwarts a Wiccan Academy? Imagination and Morality Imagination and Faith

Ravenclaw - Many-Flavored Topics in Metaphysics

13 - Finding Platform 9 : The Idea of a Different Reality

The Oz Stories The Ship of Theseus The Narnia Chronicles Hogwarts Hogwarts and Narnia Hogwarts and Oz Hogwarts and Our World Seeing but Not Noticing Science and Alchemy

14 - Space, Time, and Magic

Where and When: The Harry Potter Universe and Our Own World Magical and Non-Magical Places How: Travel by Magical Means Time Travel: The Tensed versus the Tenseless View of Time Time Travel in the Harry Potter Universe What We’ve Learned About Harry Potter’s World

15 - Why Voldemort Won’t Just Die Already: What Wizards Can Teach Us about ...

Disembodied Survival and the Nature of Persons Teletransportation and Personal Identity

16 - The Prophecy-Driven Life: Fate and Freedom at Hogwarts

The Scientific Challenge to Freedom The Religious Challenge to Freedom The Paranormal Challenge to Free Will Reconciling Freedom and Foreknowledge

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