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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 철학 > 비판
· ISBN : 9780470373385
· 쪽수 : 320쪽
· 출판일 : 2009-08-01
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Introduction: The Wonder of Heroes.
PART ONE: HEROIC OBLIGATIONS.
Chapter 1: Above the Social Contract? How Superheroes Break Society (Robert Sharp).
Chapter 2: Heroes, Obligations, and The Ethics of Saving the World (J.K. Miles).
Chapter 3: Corporate Capers: The Moral Dimensions of Working for The Company (Christopher Robichaud).
Chapter 4: With Great Creativity Comes Great Imitation: Problems of Plagiarism and Knowledge (Jason Southworth).
PART TWO: SUPERMEN, SAMURAI, AND INVISIBLE MEN.
Chapter 5:Time and the Meaning of Life in Heroes and Nietzsche (Tyler Shores).
Chapter 6: Hiro Nakamura, Bushido, and Hero-Archetypes (Erik Daniel Baldwin).
Chapter 7: Plato on Gyges' Ring of Invisibility: The Power of Heroes and the Value of Virtue (Don Adams).
PART THREE: METAPHYSICS, REGULAR-PHYSICS, AND HEROIC TIME TRAVEL.
Chapter 8: The Foreknowledge of a Painter, The Fate of a Hero (David Kyle Johnson).
Chapter 9: Time to be a Hero: Branching Time and Changing the Future (Morgan Luck).
Chapter 10: Heroes and the Ethics of Time Travel: Does the Present Matter (David Faraci).
Chapter 11: The Physics of Heroes: Immortal Samurais, Flying Men, and Destroying the Space-Time Continuum (Andrew Zimmerman Jones).
Chapter 12: Pseudoscience, Scientific Revolutions, and (Chandra Suresh, David Kyle Johnson and Andrew Zimmerman Jones).
PART FOUR: THE MINDS OF HEROES.
Chapter 13: Peter Petrelli, The Haitian and the Philosophical Implications of Memory Loss (Peter Kirwan).
Chapter 14: Understanding Other Minds: Philosophical Foundations of Heroes Mindreading Powers (Fabio Paglieri).
Chapter 15: Peter Petrelli: The Power of Empathy (Andrew Terjesen).
PART FIVE: VILLAINS, FAMILY AND LYING.
Chapter 16: Are the Heroes Really Good (Peter S. Fosl)?
Chapter 17: Heroes and Family Obligations (Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth).
Chapter 18: Concealment and Lying: Is this any way for a Hero to act (Mike Berry)?
Contributors: Our Heroes.
Chandra Suresh’s List: a catalogue of powers, both natural and synthetic.
Index: the power of omniscience (about this book).
