Table Of Content

Contents Introduction: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane … It’s Philosophy! Part One: THE BIG BLUE BOY SCOUT Chapter 1: Moral Judgment The Trinity of Moral Philosophy But Like Superpowers, Ethics Only Gets You So Far Tragic Dilemma in Your Pocket (Universe) I’m Walkin’, Yes Indeed Superman Did What? What Makes Superman Human Chapter 2: Action Comics! It’s Practically Reasonable More Powerful Than a Locomotive We Could Be Heroes … Superman vs. the Calculator Faster Than a Speeding Bullet The Virtues of Being Super So Whom Does He Save? Chapter 3: Can the Man of TomorrowBe the Journalist of Today? The Face and the Voice A Reporter’s Story The Reporter of Steel Superman Confidential: Seek Truth and Report It The Big Forget: Act Independently Wicked Business! Minimize Harm Fatal Flaw? Chapter 4: Could Superman Have Joined the Third Reich? … Or Not The Moral Education of a Superman Superman: Son of the Third Reich In the End, Hitler Still Loses Part Two: TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY Chapter 5: Clark Kent Is Superman! What Is the Secret? Superman for President! The Secret Revealed! Opening the Shirt Letting in Lois In the Vault Chapter 6: Superman and Justice It’s All About Personal Liberty Truth, Libertarian Justice, and the American Way Great Rawls! Behind the (Lead-Lined) Veil of Ignorance Occupy Metropolis Superman’s Greatest Foe? Chapter 7: Is Superman an American Icon? Is Superman Giving Up on the American Way? My Country, Right or Wrong—But Mostly Right Can Superman Be a Citizen of the World? Cosmopolitanism Then and Now The Appearance of Impropriety Act Locally, Think Globally Part Three: THE WILL TO SUPERPOWER Chapter 8: Rediscovering Nietzsche’s Übermensch in Superman as a Heroic Ideal Truth, Justice, and the Nietzschean Way Putting the Über into the Übermensch The Nietzschean Superman Superman vs. Clark Kent S Is for Savior Kneel Before Zod! Perhaps … Lex Luthor? Nietzschean Übermensch, American Christ, or Both? Chapter 9: Superman or Last Man Survival of the Weakest Introducing Superman—Whether We Need Him or Not Waiting for Superman Resignation Superman Singer vs. Nietzsche It Ain’t Easy Being Blue Is He Worth It? Chapter 10: Superman Übermensch as Anti-Christ Lex Luthor: Super-Man? Jesus Without the Christ Moral Illumination Trinitarian Movie Mythos Is Superman Christ or a Christ-Type? Seduction of the Innocent? Chapter 11: Superman Must Be Destroyed! A Man Who Writes His Own Script An Iconoclast One Man Is an Island The Anti-Hero of Faith Existentialists Gone Wild! Part Four: THE ULTIMATE HERO Chapter 12: Superman’s Revelation The Never-Ending Battle Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World2 Kingdom Come Superman’s Dilemma Good Violence vs. Bad Violence Sacred Violence Caution: Mythology at Work The Truth About Truth and Justice Chapter 13: A World Without a Clark Kent? Goodbye, Clark? Golden Age Limits The Humanity of Martha Kent Jor-El’s Higher Calling Lex Luthor, Villain or Hero? Man and Superman Chapter 14: The Weight of the World Know Your Role! Superhindsight There’s Demanding and Then There’s Demanding It Ain’t Right, I Tell Ya, It Ain’t Right The Big Blue Boy Scout Superman Meets His Match: Supererogatory! The Weight of the World Part Five: SUPERMAN AND HUMANITY Chapter 15: Superman and Man Mystery of the Bizarro World! Strange Visitor to Earth-P! Civilizing Earth-P The Super-Men of Earth-O! Humanity’s Greatest Power! Chapter 16: Can the Man of Steel Feel Our Pain? Growing Up a Super Boy Men Are from Earth, Supermen Are from Krypton Just Another Kid from Smallville There’s Pain and Then There’s Pain I Am Curious (Superman) Kneel Before Zod What the “S” Really Means Sympathy for the Hero Chapter 17: World’s Finest Philosophers Batman, Hobbes, and the War of All Against All Batman and the Sovereign The Most Perfect Line You Matter—To Me Securing Recognition Batman or Superman? Hobbes or Hegel? Part Six: OF SUPERMAN AND SUPERMINDS Chapter 18: “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s … Clark Kent?” The Question-Begger, the Greatest Villain in Philosophy Is It My Super-Body? Memories of You, Superman Hole-y Personality Superman! Would the Real Superman Please Stand Up! So Let’s Give Lois a Break! Chapter 19: Superman Family Resemblance The Eternal Superman The Challenge of the Supermen Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Family Values But Families Also Disagree a Lot Having Fun With Big Blue Chapter 20: Why Superman Should Not Be Able to Read Minds The Mind of Superman Great Caesar’s Ghost: The Problem of Other Minds! Solving the Kryptonian Knot What Are You Thinking? Zombie Superman: Even Worse Than Bizarro Too Close for Comfort Luthor’s Razor Forget It, Supes Contributors: Trapped in the Philosophy Zone Index: From Brainiac’s Files The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Series Editor: William Irwin A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, and a healthy helping of popular culture clears the cobwebs from Kant. Philosophy has had a public relations problem for a few centuries now. This series aims to change that, showing that philosophy is relevant to your life—and not just for answering the big questions like “To be or not to be?” but for answering the little questions: “To watch or not to watch South Park?” Thinking deeply about TV, movies, and music doesn’t make you a “complete idiot.” In fact it might make you a philosopher, someone who believes the unexamined life is not worth living and the unexamined cartoon is not worth watching. Already published in the series: 24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack Edited by Jennifer Hart Weed, Richard Brian Davis, and Ronald Weed 30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want to Go to There Edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser Edited by Richard Brian Davis Arrested Development and Philosophy: They’ve Made a Huge Mistake Edited by Kristopher Phillips and J. Jeremy Wisnewski The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth’s Mightiest Thinkers Edited by Mark D. White Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul Edited by Mark D. White and Robert Arp Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There Edited by Jason T. Eberl The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke Edited by Dean Kowalski The Big Lebowski and Philosophy: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom Edited by Peter S. Fosl Black Sabbath and Philosophy: Mastering Reality Edited by William Irwin The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News Edited by Jason Holt Downton Abbey and Philosophy: The Truth Is Neither Here Nor There Edited by Mark D. White Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded Edited by J. Jeremy Wisnewski Final Fantasy and Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough Edited by Jason P. Blahuta and Michel S. Beaulieu Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords Edited by Henry Jacoby The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything is Fire Edited by Eric Bronson Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape this Book Edited by Jane Dryden and Mark D. White Heroes and Philosophy: Buy the Book, Save the World Edited by David Kyle Johnson The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You’ve Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way Edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies Edited by Henry Jacoby The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason Edited by George Dunn and Nicolas Michaud Inception and Philosophy: Because It’s Never Just a Dream Edited by David Johnson Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality Edited by Mark D. White Lost and Philosophy: The Island Has Its Reasons Edited by Sharon M. Kaye Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems Edited by James South and Rod Carveth Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery

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Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the Man of Steel t