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1 online resource. Episode I : the philosophical menace. The platonic paradox of Darth Plagueis : how could a sith lord be wise? / Terrance MacMullan -- You are asking me to be rational : stoic philosophy and the Jedi order / Matt Hummel -- The Jedi knights of faith : Anakin, Luke, and Soren (Kierkegaard) / William A. Lindenmuth -- Anakin and Achilles : scars of nihilism / Don Adams -- Dark times : the end of the republic and the beginning of Chinese philosophy / Kevin S. Decker -- Episode II : attack of the morals. Chasing Kevin Smith: was it immoral for the rebel alliance to destroy Death Star II? / Charles C. Camosy -- The ballad of Boba Fett : mercenary agency and amoralism in war / David LaRocca -- How guilty is Jar Jar Binks? / Nicolas Michaud -- Know the dark side : a theodicy of the force / Jason T. Eberl -- Episode III: revenge of the alliance -- Like my father before me : loss and redemption of fatherhood in Star Wars / Charles Taliaferro and Annika Taylor Beck -- The friends of a Jedi : friendship, family, and civic duty in a galaxy at war / Greg Littmann -- Light side, dark side, and switching sides : loyalty and betrayal in Star Wars / Daniel Malloy -- Guardians and tyrants in the republics of Star Wars and Plato / Adam Barkman and Kyle Alkema -- Episode IV : a new hermeneutic -- Pregnant Padme and slave Leia : Star Wars female role models / Cole Bowman -- Docile bodies and a viscous force : fear of the flesh in return of the Jedi / Jennifer L. McMahon -- Of battle droids and zillo beasts : moral status in the Star Wars galaxy / James M. Okapal -- Episode V : metaphysics strikes back -- Why the force must have a dark side / George A. Dunn -- What is it like to be a Jedi? : a life in the force / Marek McGann -- Never tell me the odds : an inquiry concerning Jedi understanding / Andrew Zimmerman Jones -- Episode VI : return of the non-human -- Mindless philosophers and overweight globs of grease : are droids capable of thought? / Dan Burkett -- Can Chewie speak? : Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language / Rhiannon Grant and Myfanwy Reynolds -- Can the zillo beast strike back? : cloning, de-extinction, and the species problem / Leonard Finkelman -- Episode VII : the fandom awakens -- In that time in a galaxy far, far away : epic myth-understandings and myth-appropriation in Star Wars / John Thompson -- Star Wars, emotions, and the paradox of fiction / Lance Belluomini -- The mind of blue snaggletooth : the intentional stance, vintage Star Wars action figures, and the origins of religion / Dennis Knepp -- Gospel, gossip, and Ghent : how should we understand the new Star Wars? / Roy T. Cook and Nathan Kellen. Edited by Jason T. Eberl and Kevin S. Decker. Includes index. Star Wars films Philosophy in motion pictures Philosophy in literature PERFORMING ARTS / Reference Philosophy in literature Philosophy in motion pictures Star Wars films PN1995.9.S695 791.43/75 Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2015 (DLC) 2015012933 9781119038078 1119038073 9781119038085 1119038081 2015017258 D19E4EC6-B6AA-4610-BEA5-B9A38E6C7CB1 OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119038092 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119038092 DLC 150430 20171025081759.0 ocn908287096 eng