Dune and Philosophy: Weirding Way of the Mentat (Popular Culture and Philosophy Book 56) by Nicholas, Jeffery -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Popular Culture and Philosophy Invitation Ecology of Muad’Dib

Facing the Gom Jabbar Test

The Golden Path of Eugenics

Nature Groomed: The Bene Gesserit Nature Denatured: Leto II Nature Subverted: The Bene Tleilax The (Single) Garden Path

Shifting Sand, Shifting Balance

Making a Clausewitz Ghola Clausewitz’s Trinity Ernesto “Usul” Guevara In for a Ducal Seat, in for an Imperial Throne From the Deserts of Arrakis to the Deserts of Earth

Curse of the Golden Path

The Trap of Prescience Paul Atreides: Kwisatz Haderach? Belief, Justified, True The Paradox of Foreknowledge I Am the Book of Fate God’s Knowledge and Free Will Demons of Prediction On the Balancing of Probabilities Intending the Way Out

Politics of Muad’Dib

The American Fremen

The Weirdness of Dune’s Fremen Emerson’s Self-Reliance Dewey’s Democracy as a Way of Life The Fremen as Pragmatic Americans The Jihadist Way of Life

What’s Wrong with Politics in the Duniverse?

The Politics of Dune Strategic Action in the Duniverse Stability and Rightful Authority in the Duniverse Leto’s Not So Golden Path

A Universe of Bastards

The Players in the Duniverse It’s Like Fighting over the Last Beer Spice as the Vehicle of Power

Ethics of Muad’Dib

Power Mongers and Worm Riders

The Harkonnens and Power The Fremen and Identity He Will Take to the Ways of the Fremen as if He Were Born to Them The Spice of Meaning

Just What Do You Do with the Entire Human Race Anyway?

Water in Your Stillsuit and Spice in the Bank A Sandworm Can’t Hurt You Because It Can’t Make You Morally Worse Socrates Boards a Guild Highliner Socrates Considers the Human Race Fulfill Your Human Potential: Be a Mentat. Aristotle Tours the Duniverse Aristotle Considers the Human Race Alone into the Desert

Good and Evil in David Lynch’s Dune

The Messiah and His Dreams The Problem of Evil The Free Will Defense The Emergence of Good from Evil

Self of Muad’Dib

A Ghola of a Chance

The Ghola in the Machine Let’s Get Physical As Duncan As Far as Mind’s Eye Can See I Survived My Past Self and All I Got Was This T-shirt Conversation with Mother Superior Schism of the Neo-Lockeans My Own Duncan Idaho Selfworms of Dune Life in 4-D Long-Term Identity

Wiping Finite Answers from an Infinite Universe

Butler and Heidegger Sardaukar Brute Force or Fremen Adaptivity? When Total Adaption Becomes a Trap The Test of Humanity

Memories Are Made of Spice

Who Is This Muad’Dib? We Bene Gesserit Sift People to Find the Humans It’s Said that the Fremen Scum Drink the Blood of Their Dead The Gallant Officer Gurney Have You Tasted the Blessed Water? Which Future Path to Take? Get Out of My Mind!

Heroism of Muad’Dib

Paul Atreides the Nietzschean Hero

Muad’Dib: Sardonic, Illogical, Mythological Stagnation of Myth Religion and Suffering The Prophet

Friedrich Nietzsche Goes to Space

Son of the Curse of the Golden Path

Paul’s Terrible Purpose The Truth Shall Not Set You Free The Tyrant Vision-Battle in the Desert A Single Word at the Future’s Precipice Aftermath at Sietch Tabr In The Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man . . .

Appendixes References The Almanak en-Ashraf Killing and Healing Words Copyright Page