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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: William Irwin
Title Page
Dedication
Heroes of Rogue Squadron
The Force Is with You . . . but You’re Not a Jedi Yet
Part I - “May The Force Be with You”
1 - “You Cannot Escape Your Destiny” (Or Can You?): Freedom and Predestination ...
“Clouded This Boy’s Future Is”
“Everything Is Proceeding as I Had Foreseen”
“He’s Got to Follow His Own Path”
“This One a Long Time Have I Watched”
2 - Stoicism in the Stars: Yoda, the Emperor, and the Force
Appearance versus Reality: Jester or Jedi Master?
Stoicism and the Virtues of the Sage
The Logic of the Dark Side
“Control, Control, You Must Learn Control”
3 - The Far East of Star Wars
“Looking? Found Someone You Have”
“Don’t Give In to Hate: That Leads to the Dark Side”
“Great Warrior? Wars Not Make One Great”
4 - Moral Ambiguity in a Black-and-White Universe
“What Good’s a Reward if You Ain’t Around to Use It?”
“This Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time”
“Together . . . We Can Destroy the Sith”
“I’m a Jedi . . . I Know I’m Better Than This”
“You Know . . . What They’re Up Against”
Part II - “Try Not—Do or Do Not”
5 - The Aspiring Jedi’s Handbook of Virtue
The Old Republic and the Older Republic
A Balancing Act
Entering the Deep, Dark Cave
The Right Kind of Love
Is Brainwashing Ethically Sanitary?
The Jedi Model
6 - “A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy”: Star Wars and the Problem of Evil
Something Wicked This Way Comes. But From Whence Does It Come?
“One All-Powerful Force Controlling Everything”
“If Once You Start Down the Dark Path . . .”
The Fate of Evil after the Overthrow of the Empire
7 - “Be Mindful of the Living Force”: Environmental Ethics in Star Wars
Wookiees and Mynocks and Hutts, Oh My!
Value in Nature
“May The Force Be with You”: Lessons from the Jedi
“Mudhole? Slimy? My Home This Is”: Jedi Living in the Natural World
Culture versus Nature
Restoring Balance to the Force
8 - Send In the Clones: The Ethics of Future Wars
Cloning Gets a Bum Rap
Getting into Your Genes
Different Strokes for Different Folks
War: What Is It Good For?
To Be All You Can Be, or Not?—That Is the Question
Send in the Clones!
Part III - “Don’t Call Me a Mindless Philosopher!”
9 - A Technological Galaxy: Heidegger and the Philosophy of Technology in Star Wars
Heidegger on Technology
“An Elegant Weapon”: The Lightsaber as Ready-To-Hand
Yoda as Being-in-the-Dagobah System
Enframing and the Eye of the Empire
The Enframing of Anakin Skywalker
Only a Jedi Can Save Us: Forgetting and Recollecting
10 - “If Droids Could Think . . .”: Droids as Slaves and Persons
“He’s Quite Clever, You Know . . . For a Human Being”
“If Droids Could Think, There’d Be None of Us Here, Would There?”
“I Am Fluent in Over Six Million Forms of Communication”
“You’ve Been a Great Pal . . . I’ll Make Sure Mom Doesn’t Sell You”
It’s Not Our Lot in Life!
11 - “Size Matters Not”: The Force as the Causal Power of the Jedi
The Source of the Jedi’s Power
“Size Matters Not”
The Power that Keeps On Giving
“There’s [Not] One All-Powerful Force Controlling Everything”
“May The Force Be with You”
12 - The Force Is with Us: Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit Strikes Back at the Empire
Mythic Journey of the Hero
Spirit: Hegel’s Distillation of the History of Religion
Anakin Skywalker as the Chosen One
The Force of Love
Part IV - “There’s Always a Bigger Fish”
13 - “What Is Thy Bidding, My Master?”: Star Wars and the Hegelian Struggle ...
Masters and Slaves: Who Rules Whom?
An Empire of Fear and Trembling
14 - By Any Means Necessary: Tyranny, Democracy, Republic, and Empire
Galactic Politics for Dummies
Fear as an Ally
Power in the Hands of the Virtuous Few
Palpatine’s Legacy
15 - Humanizing Technology: Flesh and Machine in Aristotle and The Empire ...
“I Am Fluent in Six Million Forms of Communication”
“I Thought They Smelled Bad on the Outside”
“Luminous Beings Are We . . . Not This Crude Matter”
16 - “A Certain Point of View”: Lying Jedi, Honest Sith, and the Viewers Who ...
Just the Facts
“Judge Me by My Size, Do You?”
Truth and the Marketplace
“Unexpected This Is, and Unfortunate”
“Trust Your Feelings”
17 - Religious Pragmatism through the Eyes of Luke Skywalker
“A Lot of Simple Tricks and Nonsense”
“I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing”
“I Don’t Believe It” . . . “That Is why You Fail”
“A New Hope”
Masters of the Jedi Council
The Phantom Index
Copyright Page
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