Harry Potter and Philosophy: if Aristotle ran Hogwarts PDF
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Table of Contents Popular Culture and Philosophy Series Editor: George A. Reisch Title Page Dedication A Few Start-of-Term Notices Abbreviations The Magic of Philosophy Gryffindor - The Characters of Harry’s World Chapter 1 - The Courageous Harry Potter Magic and Virtue The Virtues at Hogwarts Feelings of Fear Harry’s Recipe for Courage Harry’s Big Step of Faith Chapter 2 - Dursley Duplicity: The Morality and Psychology of Self-Deception The Arguments for Self-Deception The Self-Deceptions of the Dursleys The Lessons of Dursley Deceit A Fourth Lesson Making Sense of Positive Illusions An Honest Life Chapter 3 - Voldemort’s Agents, Malfoy’s Cronies, and Hagrid’s Chums: ... Voldemort’s Agents Malfoy’s Cronies: Crabbe and Goyle Hagrid’s Chums: Harry, Ron, and Hermione Aristotle’s Friends Useful Friends and Pleasant Friends Friendship in the Fullest Sense “What’s Comin’ Will Come, an’ We’ll Meet It When It Does” (GF, p. 719) Chapter 4 - Feminism and Equal Opportunity: Hermione and the Women of Hogwarts In the Image of Her Creator Not Just One of the Guys Strength of Mind and Moral Virtue Co-education at Hogwarts Equal Opportunity Beyond Hogwarts Hufflepuff - Morality in Rowling’s Universe Chapter 5 - Heaven, Hell, and Harry Potter Are We Truly Happy? Is Death Really a Good Thing? So Why Not Take the Money and Run? Magical Moral Obligations Some Damned Good Reasons Chapter 6 - Magic, Science, and the Ethics of Technology Magic, Science, and Harry Potter Interlude: Fantasy and Moral Epistemology Rowling’s Ethics of Magic Back to Reality Chapter 7 - The Mirror of Erised: Why We Should Heed Dumbledore’s Warning The Mirror of Erised Dumbledore’s Warning Knowledge and Truth Descartes’s Dreams The Experience Machine To Plug In . . . . . . Or Not to Plug In Doing Certain Things Being a Certain Way Back to the Mirror Heeding Dumbledore’s Warning Chapter 8 - Kreacher’s Lament: S.P.E.W. as a Parable on Discrimination, ... Discrimination and Prejudice What Is Wrong with Prejudice? Why S.P.E.W. Doesn’t Work Indifference, Security, and Social Justice Slytherin - Knockturn Alley and the Dark Arts Chapter 9 - Is Ambition a Virtue? Why Slytherin Belongs at Hogwarts Aristotle and the Sorting Hat The Virtue of Slytherin House Ambition as a Virtue What We Can Learn from Slytherin House Chapter 10 - A Skewed Reflection: The Nature of Evil Evil Doesn’t Exist Evil Protects Itself and Grows through Deception Evil Is a Result of Free Choice Seeing Clearly, Acting Bravely Chapter 11 - Voldemort, Boethius, and the Destructive Effects of Evil Boethius and the Destructive Effects of Evil Voldemort and the Destructive Effects of Evil Voldemort and Moral Education Chapter 12 - Magic, Muggles, and Moral Imagination The Devil Made Harry Do It What’s Wrong with Harry? Answering the Moral Charge Is Hogwarts a Wiccan Academy? Imagination and Morality Imagination and Faith Ravenclaw - Many-Flavored Topics in Metaphysics Chapter 13 - Finding Platform 9 : The Idea of a Different Reality The Oz Stories The Ship of Theseus The Narnia Chronicles Hogwarts Hogwarts and Narnia Hogwarts and Oz Hogwarts and Our World Seeing but Not Noticing Science and Alchemy Chapter 14 - Space, Time, and Magic Where and When: The Harry Potter Universe and Our Own World Magical and Non-Magical Places How: Travel by Magical Means Time Travel: The Tensed versus the Tenseless View of Time Time Travel in the Harry Potter Universe What We’ve Learned About Harry Potter’s World Chapter 15 - Why Voldemort Won’t Just Die Already: What Wizards Can Teach Us ... Disembodied Survival and the Nature of Persons Teletransportation and Personal Identity Chapter 16 - The Prophecy-Driven Life: Fate and Freedom at Hogwarts The Scientific Challenge to Freedom The Religious Challenge to Freedom The Paranormal Challenge to Free Will Reconciling Freedom and Foreknowledge Hogwarts Emeritus Faculty Current Hogwarts Faculty A Wizard’s Index Copyright Page Popular Culture and Philosophy ® Series Editor: George A. Reisch VOLUME 1 Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing (2000) VOLUME 2 The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer (2001) VOLUME 3 The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) VOLUME 4 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (2003)
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