[Popular Culture and Philosophy 60] • SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy by Foy, Joseph J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments Who Teaches Philosophy Under the Sea? PART I - I’m Ready, I’m Ready, I’m Ready Chapter 1 - Self-Mastered Sponge

We Could Teach You How to Be Good Licking Doorknobs Is Illegal on Other Planets What Could Be Better than Serving Up Smiles? Why Is It the Best Day Ever?

Chapter 2 - The Rule of Dumb?

Patrick SmartPants We’re Just Not Compatible Anymore Let Us Go Off and Admire the Beauty and Fragility of Nature When Did the Fun Go Away, SpongeBob? How Can I Compete with Geniusness?

Chapter 3 - The Artistic Genius of the Miserable Squidward

The World as Squilliam and Idea Who Are You Calling Big Nose, Big Nose? Where Happiness Is Just a Suction Cup Away I Listen to Public Radio

Chapter 4 - Eugene Krabs and the True Value of a Dollar

What a Money-Tastical Day Krabby the Clown or Cheapy the Cheapskate? How Can I Be Okay when Me Money’s Gone? Know Thyself, Krabs So, You Tried to Kill Me Over a Little New Age Management, Eh?

Chapter 5 - I’m Just a Squirrel

Feminism Beyond the Treedome Stereotypes in SpongeBob SquarePants Sandy and Femininity So Where Do Gay Cartoon Characters Come From? After All, Who’s the Toughest Critter in Bikini Bottom?

Chapter 6 - He Went to College (And Other Reasons We Should Serve Plankton)

Our Hero . . . Plankton! Super-Plankton! Why Lesser Fish Hate Plankton That Naive Cube! How Long Must I Suffer This?

PART II - Welcome to Bikini Bottom Chapter 7 - Bikini Bottom—Best Society Ever?

The Need for Government An Opposite Society Playing Hooky from Government Mr. Krabs’s House of Servitude Squidville Realized Protecting Against the Bubble Poppin’ Boys An Island of Milk and Honey or Rock Bottom?

Chapter 8 - SpongeBob as Royal Candidate

Election Time in Bikini Bottom Democracy Is Overrated A Defense of Democracy The Ideal Candidate

Chapter 9 - I’m the King. That’s What I Do

Executing Poles and Other Wrong Acts Behavior Befitting a King You Won’t Be the King until You Learn To . . . Four Virtues And Three More Yours Is Superior, therefore I Concede to You?

Chapter 10 - Mr. Krabs’s Secret Recipe

Chapter 11 - Nautical Nonsense and Naturalism

SpongeBob’s Place in Literary History (in Regards to Nature) “Nature Pants” and Jellyfish Instinct Squidward: A Cephalopod of the Streets It’s Not Nice to Fool (with) Mother Nature Friends—Don’t Leave Home without ’Em

PART III - You’re Like a Steamed Vegetable, Only Smarter Chapter 12 - Does Anyone Have a Quarter?

Sleepy Time Am I Still Dreaming? Watch Your Wandering Eye You Can Do Anything You Want No More Messing with People’s Dreams Stay Out of Our Dreams! Do I Even Care if I’m Dreaming?

Chapter 13 - The Ego and the Squid

A Trip through Brain Coral Fields The Inner Machinations of My Mind Are an Enigma That’s It! I’m Getting Off the Looney Express What You Really Wanted Was Inside You All Along

Chapter 14 - Sandy Cheeks, Scientist

Who Lives in a Treedome Under the Sea? Children’s Ideas about Science and Scientists Sandy Cheeks as a Role Model What about the Science? The Future of Sandy Cheeks

Chapter 15 - A Sponge’s Insatiable Thirst for Knowledge

You Can’t Handle the Truth Curiosity Kills the Sponge What’s in the Box? The Purloined Peek into Epistemological Morals Secret Revealed . . . I Wonder?

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