Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture. Группа авторов

Truth, Libertarian Justice, and the American Way Great Rawls! Behind the (Lead‐Lined) Veil of Ignorance Occupy Metropolis Superman's Greatest Foe? 34 Cartman Shrugged High Philosophy and Low Comedy Speaking the Unspeakable A Plague on Both Your Houses Defending the Undefendable The Town of South Park Versus Harbucks The Great Gnome Mystery Solved The Wal‐Mart Monster 35 Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic Where's Lando? The Building Bricks of Race Kobe Bryant, Ninjas, and Race Race in The LEGO Movie Postscript, July 2020: Everything is Not Awesome 36 When Tech Meets Tradition Are There Black People in the (Transhumanist) Future? “You Savages Didn't Deserve it!” The Future Must Have Roots and Branches Blackness as a Pathway to the Future 37 Black Mirror and Political Manipulation Our “MASS Implant”: The Language of Dehumanization The Consequences of Our “MASS Implant”: The Violence of Dehumanization The “MASS Implant” Today Rehumanizing the Dehumanized: How to Turn Off Our “MASS Implant” The Future of Our “MASS Implant” 38 Black Mirror and #DeathTo Dangers Benefits With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

      15  Part VIII: Eastern Views 39 The Brick, the Plate, and the Uncarved Block It's an Invitation, Not a Toy “It's Super Serious, Right, Babe?” “Actually, it's a Highly Sophisticated Interlocking Brick System” “No Government, no Babysitters … and There's Also No Consistency” “They’re Expecting Us to Show Up in a Bat‐Spaceship “Everything is Awesome!” 40 LEGO, Impermanence, and Buddhism What is Impermanence? Benefits of an Impermanent Mindset Aggregates of Impermanence The LEGOs of Impermanence 41 Zen and the Art of Imagineering When You Wish Upon a Bodhi Tree Under the Sea or Part of Your World? May the Cash Be with You Hakuna Matata, Bodhisattva

      16  Part IX: The Afterlife and Meaning 42 Beyond Godric's Hollow Death and Philosophy The Approaching Battle King's Cross Station Reap a Destiny 43 Why it Wouldn't be Rational to Believe You're in The Good Place (and Why You Wouldn't Want to Be Anyway) Cartesian Skepticism About The Good Place The Good Place as a Good Explanation Scientific Skepticism About The Good Place Cosmic Coachella Conclusion: The Meaning of Life

      17  Index

      18  End User License Agreement

      Guide

      1  Cover Page

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Notes on Contributors

      5  Acknowledgments

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