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Index
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
NOTES
PART ONE - HEROIC OBLIGATIONS
ONE - ABOVE THE SOCIAL CONTRACT? HOW SUPERHEROES BREAK SOCIETY
Hero or Not, Who Needs a Social Contract, Anyway?
Hobbes Debates Superheroes: Story at 11
Rawls and the Natural Lottery: How Do I Join the Gene Pool That Makes Me ...
Do Superheroes Break Society?
NOTES
TWO - HEROES, OBLIGATIONS, AND THE ETHICS OF SAVING THE WORLD
Niki, D.L., and the Nature of Obligations
Claire, Hiro, and Minimal Obligation
Peter Petrelli and the Limits of Obligation
Compensation and Saving the World
NOTES
THREE - CORPORATE CAPERS: THE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF WORKING FOR THE COMPANY
Something’s Rotten at Primatech Paper
Messin’ with Mother Nature
Eating a Little Humble Pie
Finding Where the Blame Lies
Blowing the Whistle on the Bad Guys
NOTES
FOUR - WITH GREAT CREATIVITY COMES GREAT IMITATION: PROBLEMS OF PLAGIARISM AND KNOWLEDGE
“Cautionary Tales”: The Formal Charges of Plagiarism
“The Line”: What Is Plagiarism and Has It Occurred?
“Unexpected”: Accidental Plagiarism and the Case against It
“Truth and Consequences”: So, What Has Kring Done Wrong?
“The Hard Part”
NOTES
PART TWO - SUPERMEN, SAMURAI, AND INVISIBLE MEN
FIVE - TIME AND THE MEANING OF LIFE IN HEROES AND NIETZSCHE
Nietzsche: “We Are Unknown to Ourselves”
A Tale of Two Paths
Nietzsche’s Love of Fate
“Lives Fixed in Paint”: Life Imitates Art or Art Imitates Life?
“The Future Is Not Written in Stone”
NOTES
SIX - HIRO NAKAMURA, BUSHIDO, AND HERO ARCHETYPES
The “Genesis” of the Popular View of Bushido
Being Willing to Tear Out One’s Own Heart; Historical Bushido
I Just Want to Be a Hero
You’re a Badass
The Wind at the Back of History
NOTES
SEVEN - PLATO ON GYGES’ RING OF INVISIBILITY: THE POWER OF HEROES AND THE VALUE ...
Claire’s Thumos Saved the World
Claire Is Logical; Spock Is Not
The Virtue That Sylar Lacks
Superpowers and Super-Vices
Why Claire Apologized
But Isn’t It Only Natural?
NOTES
PART THREE - METAPHYSICS, REGULAR PHYSICS, AND HEROIC TIME TRAVEL
EIGHT - THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF A PAINTER, THE FATE OF A HIRO
What Is Fate?
The Truth about Fate
The Foreknowledge of Hiro
A Loose Sense of Fate
A Looser Sense of Fate
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
NOTES
NINE - TIME TO BE A HERO: BRANCHING TIME AND CHANGING THE FUTURE
The Problem with Time Travel
Linear Time Travel
Branching Time Travel
The Heroes Multiverse
With Coherence Comes a Price
NOTES
TEN - HEROES AND THE ETHICS OF TIME TRAVEL: DOES THE PRESENT MATTER?
“Out of Time”
“ . . . the Tools to Fight the Battles Ahead. ”
“Some Things Even Takezo Kensei Cannot Change. ”
Finding Hiro’s Present
Should We Stop a Time-Traveling Man?
NOTES
ELEVEN - THE SCIENCE OF HEROES: FLYING MEN, IMMORTAL SAMURAI, AND DESTROYING ...
Healing, Longevity, and Adam Monroe
Gravity, Motion, and Nathan Petrelli
Relativity, Quantum Physics, and Hiro Nakamura
The Evolution Revolution
Intelligently Designed Heroes?
NOTES
TWELVE - PSEUDOSCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS, AND DR. CHANDRA SURESH
Science versus Pseudoscience
So, What Is the Difference?
Good Scientific Method
Can Only Time Tell?
NOTES
PART FOUR - THE MINDS OF HEROES
THIRTEEN - PETER PETRELLI, THE HAITIAN, AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ...
Are You Really You ? Is Mohinder Really Mohinder ?
Do You Remember? Mohinder’s Past, Present, and Future
Chains of Memory: Heroic Ancestors
The Problem of Hiro’s Memory Loss
But What about Total Amnesia? The Case of Peter Petrelli
The Evan-the-Human-Xerox Problem
Why Claire Should Keep Her Promises
NOTE
FOURTEEN - UNDERSTANDING OTHER MINDS: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HEROES’ ...
Supernatural and Mundane Mind Reading
Is Anyone in There? Telepathy and the Problem of Other Minds
Changing Minds: The Evolutionary Value of Mind Reading
Mind Reading and Technology: Myth or Reality?
NOTES
FIFTEEN - PETER PETRELLI: THE POWER OF EMPATHY
What Is Empathy?
Empathy as Resonance
Empathy as Absorption
Empathy as Duplication
Does Empathy Make You Moral?
Limiting Our Empathy in Order to Be Moral
NOTES
PART FIVE - VILLAINS, FAMILY, AND LYING
SIXTEEN - ARE THE HEROES REALLY GOOD?
Evil as Ignorance
Evil as Privation and Rebellion
The Superhuman
Evil as Not Caring
NOTES
SEVENTEEN - HEROES AND FAMILY OBLIGATIONS
Universal Justice
The Ethics of Care
Confucianism
The Bennets
The Petrellis
The Nakamuras
Hawkins and Sanders
The Sureshes
The Parkmans
“Collision”
NOTES
EIGHTEEN - CONCEALMENT AND LYING: IS THAT ANY WAY FOR A HERO TO ACT?
What Is Lying?
Kant and Lying
What’s Wrong with a Little White Lie?
Machiavelli
The Presumption against Lying
Should We or Shouldn’t We?
NOTES
CONTRIBUTORS
CHANDRA SURESH’S LIST
INDEX
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