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The Ultimate Lost and Philosophy
Think Together, Die Alone
Sharon Kaye (Edited by), W Irwin (Author), William Irwin (Series edited by)
9780470632291, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 22 October 2010
368 pages
22.9 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.499 kg
Health Economics and Financing What are the metaphysics of time travel? Dude. So there’s, like, this island? And a bunch of us were on Oceanic flight 815 and we crashed on it. I kinda thought it was my fault, because of those numbers. I thought they were bad luck. We’ve seen the craziest things here, like a polar bear and a Smoke Monster, and we traveled through time back to the 1970s. And we met the Dharma dudes. Arzt even blew himself up. For a long time, I thought I was crazy. But now, I think it might have been destiny. The island’s made me question a lot of things. Like, why is it that Locke and Desmond have the same names as real philosophers? Why do so many of us have trouble with our dads? Did Jack have a choice in becoming our leader? And what’s up with Vincent? I mean, he’s gotta be more than just a dog, right? I dunno. We’ve all felt pretty lost. I just hope we can trust Jacob, otherwise … whoa. With its sixth-season series finale, Lost did more than end its run as one of the most talked-about TV programs of all time; it left in its wake a complex labyrinth of philosophical questions and issues to be explored. Revenge, redemption, love, loss, identity, morality—all of Lost’s key themes are examined in this fully updated guide, which reveals the deeper meaning behind every twist and turn in this historic, one-of-a-kind show.
How can Hurley exist in two places at the same time?
What does it mean for something to be possibly true in the flash-sideways universe?
Does Jack have a moral obligation to his father?
What is the Tao of John Locke?
Introduction: Lost and F.O.U.N.D. 1 Part One F is for Fortune 1 Lost in Lost’s Times 9 2 Imaginary Peanut Butter: The Puzzles of Time Travel in Lost 32 3 It Doesn’t Matter What We Do: From Metaphysics to Ethics in Lost’s Time Travel 47 4 If Sawyer Weren’t a Con Man, Then He Would Have Been a Cop: Counterfactual Reasoning in the Last Season of Lost 63 Part Two O is for Origin 5 Lost in Different Circumstances: What Would You Do? 75 6 “Don’t Mistake Coincidence for Fate”: Lost Theories and Coincidence 91 7 Lost and the Question of Life after Birth 107 8 See You in Another Life, Brother: Bad Faith and Authenticity in Three Lost Souls 120 Part Three U is for Unity 9 Lost’s State of Nature 145 10 Friends and Enemies in the State of Nature: The Absence of Hobbes and the Presence of Schmitt 164 11 Ideology and Otherness in Lost: “Stuck in a Bloody Snow Globe” 187 Part Four N is for Necessity 12 Escaping the Island of Ethical Subjectivism: Don’t Let Ben Bring You Back 207 13 Lost Together: Fathers, Sons, and Moral Obligations 220 14 Should We Condemn Michael? 233 15 The Ethics of Objectification and the Search for Redemption in Lost 241 Part Five D is for Destiny 16 The New Narnia: Myth and Redemption on the Island of Second Chances 253 17 I Once Was Lost: Aquinas on Finding Goodness and Truth 280 18 The Tao of John Locke 300 19 Lost Metaphysics: Keeping the Needle on the Record 312 Appendix: Who Are Locke, Hume, and Rousseau? The Losties’ Guide to Philosophers 321 Contributors: Jacob’s Candidates 341 Index: Oceanic Flight 815 Manifest 347
Richard Davies
William J. Devlin
Jeremy Pierce
Deborah R. Barnbaum
Charles Taliaferro and Dan Kastrul
Briony Addey
Jeremy Barris
Sander Lee
Richard Davies
Peter S. Fosl
Karen Gaffney
George Wrisley
Michael W. Austin
Becky Vartabedian
Patricia Brace and Rob Arp
Brett Chandler Patterson
Daniel B. Gallagher
Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin
Donavan S. Muir
Scott F. Parkers
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
