Ender's Game and Philosophy: The Logic Gate is Down
A threat to humanity portending the end of our species lurks in the cold recesses of space. Our only hope is an eleven-year-old boy. Celebrating the long-awaited release of the movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card's novel about highly trained child geniuses fighting a race of invading aliens, t...
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| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Ender's Game and Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Introduction What Is Ender's Game?; Notes; Part One Third: The Making of an Impossible Child; Chapter 1 "The Teachers Got Me Into This": Educational Skirmishes … with a Pinch of Freedom; Liberal Education Is Paideia's Game; Vocational Prep: A Heaping Tablespoon, or the Main Dish?; Is Battle School Just Trade School?; Should Critical Inquiry Be Socratic or Social?; Critical Inquirer for the Dead; Educational Skirmishes; Notes; Chapter 2 Illusions of Freedom, Tragedies of Fate: The Moral Development of Ender Wiggin; Putting a Name to Evil |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Evil and Its RefrainGraff's Sacrifice; The Moral Development of Ender Wiggin; Notes; Chapter 3 Xenocide's Paradox: The Virtue of Being Ender; "A Little Private Moral Dilemma"; "The Name of Ender is One to Conjure With"; Plato or Aristotle?; Notes; Chapter 4 Teaching to the Test: Constructing the Identity of a Space Commander; "They're Gonna Make You Do Time Out in the Belt …"; "Leader's Aren't Born, They Are Made"; Battle School Panopticon; Testing 1, 2, 3 …; "I'm Sure You Can Get Your Training at Someone Else's Expense"; Every Action Has an Equal and Opposite Reaction; Notes |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Part Two Game: Cooperation or Confrontation?Chapter 5 The Enemy's Gate Is Down: Perspective, Empathy, and Game Theory; Understanding Your "Enemy"; Understanding, Empathy, and Love; Loving Your Enemy; Back to the Game; The Enemy's Gate; Notes; Chapter 6 War Games as Child's Play; Paradox of the Heart and the Head; War Games; The Problem of Dirty Hands; Death Games and Moral Decision-Making; Moral Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fainter; Ender's a Willing Pawn; Notes; Chapter 7 Forming the Formless: Sunzi and the Military Logic of Ender Wiggin; "Of Course We Tricked You Into It" |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a "The Enemy Outnumbered Him a Thousand to One"Mazes and Formlessness; Notes; Chapter 8 Do Good Games Make Good People?; So What Is a Game, Anyway?; Games Without Goals?; This Game Is Deadly Serious; Do Good Games Make Good People?; Notes; Part Three Hive-Queen: All Together Now; Chapter 9 Bugger All!: The Clash of Cultures in Ender's Game; Two Sides of the Same Coin, but Which Side Is Which?; When One Face Is Up, the Other Face Is Down; Two Faces of the Same Coin, and I Am the Metal in Between; Notes; Chapter 10 Why Ender Can't Go Home: Philotic Connections and Moral Responsibility |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a Communicating Across the GalaxyThat Blasted Fantasy Game; Ender's Quest for a New Home; Notes; Chapter 11 Of Gods and Buggers: Friendship in Ender's Game; Ender, the Superman; Happiness or Power?; Ender, the Political Animal; "I the Sweetest Friend You Got"; Notes; Part Four War: Kill or Be Killed; Chapter 12 "I Destroy Them": Ender, Good Intentions, and Moral Responsibility; "He Didn't Just Beat Him. He Beat Him Deep"; "I Didn't Want to Hurt Him!"; "All His Crimes Weighed Heavy on Him"; "Nevertheless, It's Still You Doing Those Things"27; Notes; Chapter 13 Ender's Beginning and the Just War |
| 505 | 8 | 0 | |a "The More You Obey, the More Power They Have Over You"" |
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