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050 00 $aPN6728.G74$bG739 2011
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245 00 $aGreen Lantern and philosophy :$bno evil shall escape this book /$cedited by Jane Dryden and Mark D. White.
260 $aHoboken, N.J. :$bJohn Wiley,$cc2011.
300 $ax, 292 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aThe Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe blackest night for Aristotle's account of emotions / Jason Southworth -- Flexing the mental muscle : Green Lanterns and the nature of willpower / Mark D. White -- Women are from Zamaron, men are from Oa / Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson -- Will they let just anybody join? Testing for moral judgment in the Green Lantern Corps / Andrew Terjesen -- The greatest Green Lantern : aesthetic admiration and the praiseworthy hero / Jane Dryden -- There should be no forgiveness for Hal Jordan / Nicolas Michaud -- Morality, atonement, and guilt : Hal Jordan's shifting motivations / Joseph J. Darowksi -- Hard-traveling ethics : moral rationalism versus moral sentimentalism / Andrew Terjesen -- "I despise messiness" : the Plato-Aristotle debate in the troubled friendship of Green Lantern and Green Arrow / Brett Chandler Patterson -- Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em : Green Lantern, relationships, and autonomy / Jane Dryden -- The oaths of Soranik Natu : can a doctor be a Green Lantern? / Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth -- Crying for justice : retributivism for those who worship evil's might / Mark D. White -- Hate crimes as terrorism in Brother's keeper / Ron Novy -- The ring of Gyges, the ring of the Green Lantern, and the temptation of power / Adam Barkman -- All for one and one for all : Mogo, the collective, and biological unity / Leonard Finkelman -- Green mind : the book of Oa, the Lantern corps, and Peirce's theory of communal mind / Paul R. Jaissle -- Shedding an emerald light on destiny : the problems with time travel / Amy Kind -- Another boxing glove? Green Lantern and the limits of imagination / Daniel P. Malloy -- "Beware my power" : Leibniz and Green Lantern on God, omnipotence, and evil / Carsten Fogh Nielsen -- Magic science in the Green Lantern mythos : Clarke's law, the starheart, and emotional energy / Andrew Zimmerman Jones.
520 $aExplores the philosophical issues embedded in the Green Lantern Corps' stories and characters, from what Plato's tale of the Ring of Gyges tells us about the Green Lantern ring and the desire for power, to whether willpower is the most important strength.
650 0 $aGreen Lantern (Fictitious character)
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aPhilosophy in literature.
700 1 $aDryden, Jane,$d1979-
700 1 $aWhite, Mark D.,$d1971-
830 0 $aBlackwell philosophy and popculture series.