03614nam 2200577 a 450 991014441570332120170810195501.01-282-34197-997866123419770-470-49353-40-470-69646-X0-470-69573-0(CKB)1000000000687440(EBL)470517(OCoLC)609849454(SSID)ssj0000289700(PQKBManifestationID)11226990(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289700(PQKBWorkID)10404651(PQKB)10170382(MiAaPQ)EBC470517(EXLCZ)99100000000068744020070917d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBattlestar Galactica and philosophy[electronic resource] knowledge here begins out there /edited by Jason T. EberlMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.20081 online resource (280 p.)The Blackwell philosophy and popculture seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-7814-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.BATTLESTAR GALACTICA AND PHILOSOPHY; Contents; Giving Thanks to the Lords of Kobol; "There Are Those Who Believe . . ."; Part I Opening the Ancient Scrolls: Classic Philosophers as Colonial Prophets; 1 How To Be Happy After the End of the World; 2 When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising; 3 "What a Strange Little Man": Baltar the Tyrant?; 4 The Politics of Crisis: Machiavelli in the Colonial Fleet; Part II I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?; 5 "And They Have a Plan": Cylons as Persons; 6 "I'm Sharon, But I'm a Different Sharon": The Identity of Cylons7 Embracing the "Children of Humanity": How to Prevent the Next Cylon War8 When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death; Part III Worthy of Survival: Moral Issues for Colonials and Cylons; 9 The Search for Starbuck: The Needs of the Many vs. the Few; 10 Resistance vs. Collaboration on New Caprica: What Would You Do?; 11 Being Boomer: Identity, Alienation, and Evil; 12 Cylons in the Original Position: Limits of Posthuman Justice; Part IV The Arrow, the Eye, and Earth: The Search for a (Divine?) Home; 13 "I Am an Instrument of God": Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning14 God Against the Gods: Faith and the Exodus of the Twelve Colonies15 "A Story that is Told Again, and Again, and Again": Recurrence, Providence, and Freedom; 16 Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge; Part V Sagittarons, Capricans, and Gemenese: Different Worlds, Different Perspectives; 17 Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance; 18 "Let It Be Earth": The Pragmatic Virtue of Hope; 19 Is Starbuck a Woman?; 20 Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation; There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors; The Fleet's ManifestThis thought-provoking book examines the philosophical issues arising from the re-imagined Battlestar Galacticatelevision series, revealing how the ragtag fleet's outward journey to Earth is also an inward exploration for the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers.Blackwell philosophy and popculture series.Electronic books.791.45791.4572Eberl Jason T940271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910144415703321Battlestar Galactica and philosophy2209498UNINA