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The ultimate South Park and philosophy : respect my philosophah! / / edited by Robert Arp and Kevin S. Decker |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-60744-9 |
1-118-60747-3 |
1-118-38992-1 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Blackwell philosophy and popculture series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: "Well, I'm Afraid It's About to Happen Again" Introducing The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy; Note; Part I Doing Philosophical Things with South Park; 1 Flatulence and Philosophy: A Lot of Hot Air, or the Corruption of Youth?; Oh my God! They Killed Socrates! You Bastards!; Cartman Gets a Banal Probe; Friendship Kicks Ass! The Dialogues of Kyle and Stan; An Apology for South Park: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Cartman; The Talking Cure for Our Culture; Notes |
2 You Know, I Learned Something Today: Stan Marsh and the Ethics of BeliefBelief and Evidence; Faith, Self-Interest, and Evidence; What's the Harm, Dude?; Inquiry, Hard Work, and Progress; Notes; 3 "Imaginationland," Terrorism, and the Difference Between Real and Imaginary; Critical Thinking and Theory; Unimaginative Leadership?; Just Because They're Imaginary Doesn't Mean They're Not Real; Only You Can Help Us Win This Battle; Notes; 4 Dude, Listen to Reason!: Logic Lessons Inside and Outside South Park; If You Do Drugs, Then You're a Hippie; Deductions and Inductions |
The Good, the Bad, and ... Well, That's It Really"If Chewbacca Lives on Endor, You Must Acquit"; Slippery Slopes; The Defense Rests; Note; Part II South Park and ...Religion; 5 Science, Religion, South Park, and God; |
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Hail Science! Hail Science!; Being Too Soft?; Ha, Ha, Ha. You Believe in a Supernatural Being; Maybe Just Believing in God Makes God Exist; Oh My Science!; Getting Rid of All of the Isms; Notes; 6 "Your Magic Is No Match for Our Powers Combined!" Religious Pluralism and the Search for Truth; Let's Meet the Super Best Friends; Pick Any Religion, and Picture It in Your Mind; Go God Go |
2+2=5"David Blaine Will Now Eat His Own Head"; You Gotta Have Faith; Waiting for God (Oh!); Notes; 7 Cartmanland and the Problem of Evil; "And That's It?" The Story of Job; The Sweet Milk of Our Tears; "You Are Up There!"; Free Hat, Free Willzyx, Free Will; "Are You There God? It's Me, Jesus"; "Go God Go"; Notes; Part III South Park Versus ... Religion; 8 "Respect My Religiositah!": South Park and Blasphemy; Don't Make Fun of My Faith!; Suck My Balls: Is Nothing Sacred?; Can't We All Just Get Along?; Comedy Central Caves In; 200-201: The Cartoon Wars Escalate and Guess Who Caves Again? |
Is South Park Responsible for the Decline of Western Civilization?Notes; 9 Mary's Menses and Morality: Blasphemy in South Park; What in God's Name Is Blasphemy?; Do You Care at All About People's Feelings? A Utilitarian Perspective; South Park Has the Potential to Make People Think; You Have to Hit Them With a Sledgehammer; Just Pissing People Off; Notes; 10 South Park, The Book of Mormon, and How Religious Fundamentalists Always Find a Way to Be Naive and Arrogant at the Same Time; A Mormon Just Believes; You're Making Things Up Again; Boys Should Be With Girls, That's Heavenly Father's Plan |
God Has a Plan for All of Us (That Plan Involves Me Getting My Own Planet) |
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Enlightenment from the South Park gang faster than you can say, ""Screw you guys, I'm going home""! The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah! presents a compilation of serious philosophical reflections on the twisted insights voiced by characters in TV's most irreverent animated series. Offers readers a philosophically smart and candid approach to one of television's most subversive and controversial shows as it enters its 17th seasonDraws sharp parallels between the irreverent nature of South Park and the inquiring |
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