Format:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118616062
Series Statement:
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series v.75
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Intro -- Supernatural and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Monsters ...for IDJITS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Codename: GhostPhacers -- Part One Of Monsters and Morals -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 4 Team Free Will: Something Worth Fighting For -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 7 Hunting the American Dream: Why Marx Would Think It's a Terrible Life
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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 -- Contributors: Bona Fide, Card Carrying Wisdom Lovers and GhostPhacers -- Index
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The Specter of Marx and Supernatural Capitalism -- Why It's a Terrible Life -- The Devil You Now Know -- Can You Handle the Truth? -- Notes -- 8 Mothers, Lovers, and Other Monsters: The Women of Supernatural -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 Nature -- A Science of the Supernatural -- Notes -- 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
Additional Edition:
Print version Foresman, Galen A. Supernatural and Philosophy Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2013 ISBN 9781118615959
Language:
English
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