The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy
Subtitle: the lion, the witch, and the worldview
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago; LaSalle
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
Description: Pushing through some mothballed fur coats in a wardrobe in a disused room of an old London house, Lucy and the other Pevensie children found themselves in a strange and wonderful country, populated by creatures unknown in our world. Philosophy, too, can take us into a magical new place with its own peculiar delights and dangers. Here twenty-four philosophers and Narnia fans relate some of the things they have witnessed in the weird world of Narnia and the even weirder world of philosophy. Philosophy, it turns out, can be as addictive as the White Witch's turkish delight, though hopefully not always so frustrating. Under what conditions should we believe a story that runs counter to all our experience? Does might make right or are there objective moral rules? Would Albert Einstein have made any sense of the claim that time can flow at different rates in different worlds? If a boy is turned into a dragon, is the dragon still the same person as the boy? Can salvation be found in many religions or only in one? Do animals -- even the ones that don't talk -- have souls? These puzzles and more are bravely attacked in The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy. - Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Farewell to shadowlands : believing, doubting, and knowing.; title: Aslan's voice : C.S. Lewis and the magic of sound / Stephen H. Webb; title: Virtue epistemology : why Uncle Andrew couldn't hear the animals speak / Kevin Kinghorn; title: Trusting Lucy : believing the incredible / Thomas D. Senor; title: Breaking the spell of skepticism : Puddleglum versus the Green Witch / Steven Lovell; title: At any rate there's no humbug here : truth and perspective / Bruce R. Reichenbach; title: Part 2 : The tao in Narnia : morality and the good life.; title: Worth dying for : Narnian lessons on heroism and altruism / Laura Garcia; title: Work, vocation, and the good life in Narnia / Devin Brown; title: The tao of Narnia / Tim Mosteller; title: Extreme makeover : moral development and the encounter with Aslan / Bill Davis; title: Is it good to be bad? : immoralism in Narnia / Janice Daurio; title: Narnia and the moral imagination / Gayne J. Anacker; title: Beasts, heroes, and monsters : configuring the moral imaginary / Wendy C. Hamblet; title: No longer a friend : gender in Narnia / Karin Fry; title: Part 3 : Further up and further in : exploring the deeper nature of reality.; title: Plato in Narnia / Gareth Matthews; title: Different worlds, different bodies : personal identity in Narnia / Timothy Cleveland; title: Why Eustace almost deserved his name : Lewis's critique of modern secularism / Angus Menuge; title: Time keeps on ticking, or does it? : the significance of time in The chronicles of Narnia / Michael and Adam Peterson; title: Part 4 : The deepest magic : religion and the transcendent.; title: Aslan the Terrible : painful encounters with absolute goodness / Erik J. Wielenberg; title: Worthy of a better God : religious diversity and salvation in The chronicles of Narnia / James F. Sennett; title: The atonement in Narnia / Charles Taliaferro and Rachel Traughber; title: The Green Witch and the great debate : freeing Narnia from the spell of the Lewis-Anscombe legend / Victor Reppert; title: Some dogs go to heaven : Lewis on animal salvation / Gregory Bassham