Lost and Philosophy The Island Has Its Reasons

Name: Lost and Philosophy The Island Has Its Reasons
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ISBN: 9781405163156

ISBN-10: 1405163151

ISBN-13: 9781405163156

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sharon M. Kaye, Sharon M. Kaye

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Sometimes it feels like you need a Ph.D. to follow the show. But you don't. You just need this book in which twenty-one philosophers explore the deep questions we all face as survivors on this planet: Does "everything happen for a reason"? Is torture ever justified? Who are the Others? How do we know we're not patients in Hurley's psych ward? What if the Dharma Intitiative is experimenting on us? Desmond may not be able to save Charlie, but this book could save you. A provocative study of the hit television show, "Lost," currently in its third season and set to reach its climax in 2010 Highlights the sense in which "Lost" is a genuinely philosophical show helps fans understand and…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction: L.O.S.T. in Lost




L is for Love



What Do Jack and Locke Owe their Fathers?




Should We Condemn Michael for Saving Walt?




Moral Stand-offs: Objectification on Lost




Research Ethics and the Dharma Initiative




The Island of Ethical Subjectivism: Not the Paradise of Lost




O is for Origin



Meaning and Freedom on the Island




What Would You Do? Altered States in Lost




The Island as a Test of Free Will: Freedom of Reinvention and Internal Determinism in Lost




Lost, The Third Policeman, and Guerilla Ontology




Lost in Codes: Interpretation and Deconstruction in Lost's Narrative




S is for Survival



No Exit...from the Island: A Sartrean Analysis of Lost




"The Others Are Coming": Ideology and Otherness in Lost




Tortured Souls




Friends and Enemies in the State of Nature: The Absence of Hobbes and the Presence of Schmitt




Lost's State of Nature




T is for Transformation



The Tao of John Locke




Of Moths and Men: Paths of Redemption on the Island of Second Chances




Everything Happens for a Reason




"Don't mistake coincidence for fate": Lost Theories and Coincidence




Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason




Lost and the Problem of Life after Birth



About the Authors


Index