Harry Potter and Philosophy : If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

Baggett, David (EDT)/ Klein, Shawn E. (EDT)/ Irwin, William (EDT)

Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.（2004/09発売）

Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.（2004/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 250 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780812694550
• DDC分類 100

Full Description

In 'Harry Potter and Philosophy', 17 philosophical experts unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, and uncover surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and the most discerning muggles

Contents

I. Wizards, Witches, and Muggles: The Inhabitants of Potter's World; 1. Becoming Harry Potter: An Orphan's Search for Identity; 2. Sublimated Feminism: Hermione Granger and the Women of the Wizard World; 3. Averting the Eyes: Self-Deception and the Self-Image; 4. The Taste of Love in Harry Potter; II. Choices, not Abilities: Virtue and Morality in Harry Potter; 5. If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts; 6. The Mirror of Erised: What is the Best Life; 7. The Question Concerning Magic; 8. Moral Imagination and the Apologist's Paradox; III. Knockturn Alley: Evil and the Dark Arts; 9. Is Ambition a Virtue? The Moral Significance of Slytherin House; 10. Harry Potter and the Guises of Evil; 11. Voldermort, Boethius, and the Destructive Effects of Evil; 12. Dark Creatures at Hogwarts: A Platonic Perspective; 13. Harry Potter on the Meaning of Life and Death, Good and Evil; IV. Every-Flavored Essay; 14. Heaven, Hell, and Harry Potter; 15. Wherein 9 3/4? Space, Time, And Magic in the Potter Universe; 16. Ghosts and the Possibility of Disembodied Existence; 17. Normalizing the Paranormal