Supernatural and Philosophy by Irwin, William, Foresman, Galen A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover The Blackwell Philosophy and PopCulture Series Title page Copyright page Acknowledgments Introduction: Codename: GhostPhacers Part One: OF MONSTERS AND MORALS

Chapter 1: Are Monsters Members of the Moral Community?

Moral Community? Is That Like a Coven? Monsters and the Moral Community: Group 1—Low-Functioning Monsters Group 2—Antisocial Monsters Group 3—The Moral Monsters Good Guys? Note

Chapter 2: Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Monsters and Why We Love Supernatural

Moving Backward to Move Forward Sam, I Am A Monster by Another Name Out with the Old The Monster at the End of This Chapter

Chapter 3: Hunters, Warriors, Monsters

Eat it, Twilight! The Sanctity of Life and All That Crap Nobody Kill Any Virgins! There’s an Innocent Girl Trapped Somewhere in There? We’re Not Just Hunting Anymore: We’re at War! I Might Be a Freak, But That’s Not the Same as Dangerous Notes

Chapter 4: Team Free Will

The Family Business Free Will and Bad Faith Family Matters in Moral Responsibility How Free Can a Will Be and Still Be Free? Moral Responsibility and Anguish Go Team! Notes

Part Two: LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE APOCALYPSE

Chapter 5: What the Hell Is Going On?

The Road to Hell I Saw Hellraiser, I Get the Gist Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? To Hell with You Hell in a Hand Basket Not a Chance in Hell What the Hell? Notes

Chapter 6: Try Hell, It’s a Democracy and the Weather Is Warm

The Angels Are Coming, the Angels Are Coming For Thine Is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory Absolute Power Escaping the State of War: or Why God Makes a Lousy King Hell Is a Democracy The Leviathan Crowley for President! Notes

Chapter 7: Hunting the American Dream

The Specter of Marx and Supernatural Capitalism Why It’s a Terrible Life The Devil You Now Know Can You Handle the Truth? Notes

Chapter 8: Mothers, Lovers, and Other Monsters

Kant and Objectification The Winchesters and Women The Warrior Mother Lovers, Utilitarianism, and the Mission Sam and Dean Self-Esteem But Sam and Dean Are So Pretty The Conduct of War And Other Monsters No Rest for the Wicked Notes

Chapter 9: Night of the Living Dead Demons and a Life Worth Living

A Night to Remember When Is a Choice Not a Choice? All’s Well That Ends Well Dénouement: Teaching a Dead Dog, New Tricks Notes

Part Three: EVIL BY DESIGN

Chapter 10: Dean Winchester and the Supernatural Problem of Evil

God’s Not With Us, Not Anymore I Got to Believe That I Can Choose What I Do With My Unimportant Little Life A Theory With a Little Less Fairy Dust Just Random Horrible Evil No, He’s Not on Any Flatbread Please Give Me a Chance … Notes

Chapter 11: Angels and Atheists

Good God Y’all Clap Your Hands if You Believe In the Beginning … Wishful Thinking Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean Winchester Out With the Old Note

Chapter 12: Oh God, You Devil

Ruby’s Lesson Forgetting What You Are Love and Redemption and Every Damn Demon Notes

Part Four: IT’S SUPERNATURAL

Chapter 13: Naturally Supernatural

Fiction, Myth, and Weirdness Isn’t This What Dictionaries Are For? Small Comforts from the Causal Nexus Getting Literally Too Literal Being Two With Nature5 A Science of the Supernatural Notes

Chapter 14: Masculinity and Supernatural Love

The Warrior The Sovereign Cosmic Battle of Ideals The Dirty Word in Supernatural, the L-Word Supernatural on Femininity: Less Than Admiration Erotically Co-Dependent? The Paradox of Love in Supernatural Notes

Chapter 15: Naturalizing Supernatural

What Do a Naturalist and a Supernaturalist Have in Common? The War in Heaven and Naturally Averting God’s Plan The Soul: Supernatural Genetic Code Naturally All Part of the Plan

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