Star wars and philosophy
Subtitle: more powerful than you can possibly imagine
By: edited by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl.
Contributors: Decker, Kevin S.; Eberl, Jason T.
Series: Popular culture and philosophy  ;; 12
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780812695830
Subjects: Star Wars films -- History and criticism.; Philosophy in motion pictures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "You cannot escape your destiny" (or can you?) : freedom and predestination in the Skywalker family / Jason T. Eberl; title: Stoicism in the stars : yoda, the emperor, and the force / William O. Stephens; title: The Far East of star wars / Walter [Ritoku] Robinson; title: Moral ambiguity in a black-and-white universe / Richard H. Dees; title: "Try not-do or do not" : ethics in a galaxy far, far away; title: The aspiring Jedi's handbook of virtue / Judith Barad; title: "A wretched hive of scum and villainy" : star wars and the problem of evil / Christopher M. Brown; title: "Be mindful of the living force" : environmental ethics in star wars / Elizabeth F. Cooke; title: Send in the clones : the ethics of future wars / Richard Hanley; title: "Don't call me a mindless philosopher!" : alien technologies and the metaphysics of; title: The force; title: A technological galaxy : Heidegger and the philosophy of technology in star wars /  J erold J. Abrams; title: "If droids could think . . ." : droids as slaves and persons / Robert Arp; title: "Size matters not" : the force as the causal power of the Jedi; title: Jan-erik Jones; title: The force is with us : Hegel's philosophy of spirit strikes back at the empire / James Lawler; title: "There's always a bigger fish" : truth, faith and a galactic society; title: "What is thy bidding, my master?" : star wars and the Hegelian struggle for; title: Recognition / Brian Cameron; title: By any means necessary : tyranny, democracy, republic, and empire / Kevin S. Decker; title: Humanizing technology : flesh and machine in Aristotle and the empire strikes; title: Back / Jerome Donnelly; title: "A certain point of view" : lying Jedi, honest sith, and the viewers who love; title: Them / Shanti Fader; title: Religious pragmatism through the eyes of luke skywalker; title: Joseph Long.