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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors: Drawing Wisdom from Many Different Places -- Preface -- Introduction: "We are all one people, but we live as if divided" -- Notes -- Part I The Universe Of Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Chapter 1 Native Philosophies and Relationality in Avatar: The Last Airbender: It's (Lion) Turtles All the Way Down -- The Benders: Defined by Their Bounded Space -- The People -- ATLA Universe -- Opening (Spirit) Portals -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Getting Elemental: How Many Elements Are There in Avatar: The Last Airbender? -- Fifth Element? -- One or Many -- Energy and Spirit -- Unity of the Elements -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Personalities of Martial Arts in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Water, Waterbending, and Taiji -- Earth, Earthbending, and Hong Jia Kung Fu -- Fire, Firebending, and Northern Shaolin Kung Fu -- Air, Airbending, and Baguazhang -- The Power of the Avatar -- The Wisdom of Combination -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The End of the World: Nationhood and Abolition in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Naturally Real and Socially Real -- "Thinking Like an Airbender": The Elements and Nations as Naturally Real -- Resisting Naturalization, Embracing Unity -- ATLA and Abolitionism -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Bending World, a Bent World: Supernatural Power and Its Political Implications -- Might Is Right, Magnified -- Energybender Is Coming to Town -- A Specter Is Haunting the Bending World -- Notes -- Part II Water -- Chapter 6 Avatar: The Last Airbender and Anishinaabe Philosophy -- Anishinaabe Philosophy Defined -- The Water Tribe and Indigenous Representation -- Spirituality: Similar Ways of Seeing the World -- Notes -- Chapter 7 "Lemur!" - "Dinner!": Human-Animal Relations in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- Sokka the Hunter -- Human Ends and Animals as Means -- Sokka-style: Meat, Sarcasm, and Empathy.
Aang's Relations to Animals: Harmless Entertainment? -- No Harm, No Problem? -- Questioning Our Attitudes, Sokka-style -- Notes -- Chapter 8 On the Moral Neutrality of Bloodbending -- The Origins of Bloodbending -- Bloodbending as Advanced Waterbending? -- The Martial Arts Basis of Waterbending and Bloodbending -- The Nature of Bloodbending as Depending on the Character of a Person -- Bending That Saves Life -- Notes -- Chapter 9 On the Ethics of Bloodbending: Why Is It So Wrong and Can It Ever Be Good? -- What Is Bloodbending? -- What Makes Bloodbending Bad? -- Kant and Using as Mere Means -- Does Bloodbending Violate Kant's Principle? -- Can Bloodbending Ever Be Permissible? -- What if Hama Was Wrong? -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Mystical Rationality -- Sokka, the Villagers, and Aunt Wu -- Expected Utility Theory -- The Rationality of Wearing Red Shoes -- Generalizing to Other Cases -- Wrapping Up -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 11 "I will never, ever turn my back on people who need me": Repairing the World Through Care -- Care Ethics -- Katara, a Master of Care -- Care and Political Goals of the Gaang -- Repairing Our Worlds -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Spirits, Visions, and Dreams: Native American Epistemology and the Aang Gaang -- "Knowledge . . . is priceless" (Professor Zei, "The Library") -- "You have no idea where you're going, do you?" (Sokka, "The Warriors of Kyoshi") -- "It's important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale" (Uncle Iroh, "Bitter Work") -- "The past can be a great teacher" (Aang, "The Firebending Masters") -- "I knew I'd know it when I knew it" (King Bumi, "Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters") -- Notes -- Part III Earth -- Chapter 13 Time Is an Illusion: Time and Space in the Swamp -- Calling from the Swamp: A Mystical Place.
Past, Present, Future: Soul, Mind, and Time -- Everything Is Connected: From Unity to Multiplicity -- Avatar: The Reunion of Multiplicity -- Notes -- Chapter 14 There Is No Truth in Ba Sing Se: Bald-faced Lies and the Nature of Lying -- Fire Nation Disguises and False Statements: Deception, Misleading, and Lying -- Brainwashed Beliefs: Why Falsity Is Not Enough -- The Great Divide Between True and False Beliefs -- Sharp Outfits and Fortunes Told: Metaphors, Bullshit, and Lies -- Bald-faced Lies in Ba Sing Se -- Trust and Truth -- Notes -- Chapter 15 The Rocky Terrain of Disability Gain in Avatar: The Last Airbender: Is Toph a Supercrip Stereotype or a Disability Pride Icon? -- How and Why #RepresentationMatters -- Disability Pain and Disability Gain: Models of Disability and Well-being -- The Master Narrative of the Supercrip: Overcoming Disability with Talent and Pluck -- The Proud Disabled Person as Counterstory -- Notes -- Chapter 16 The Earth King, Ignorance, and Responsibility -- Walls: Creating Order and . . . Barriers -- Must Resist Knowing Any Different -- The Buck Stops Here -- Notes -- Chapter 17 The Middle Way and the Many Faces of Earth -- Earth Is Earth Is Earth Is Earth? -- Neither/Nor -- Earth's Many Ways -- What Can We Learn? -- Notes -- Part IV Fire -- Chapter 18 The Battle Within: Confucianism and Legalism in the Nation, the Family, and the Soul -- The Fire Lord's Legalist Philosophy -- Censure and Legalist Education -- The Phoenix King -- Zuko's Confucian Schooling -- Confucianism Confronts Legalism -- Confucianism and Family -- Zuko's Legacy -- Every Soul Experiences the Battle Within -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Not Giving Up on Zuko: Relational Identity and the Stories We Tell -- Personhood as a Social Practice -- Zuko's Stories -- Personhood and Redemption -- Opening Up Possibilities -- Notes.
Chapter 20 Uncle Iroh, From Fool to Sage - Or Sage All Along? -- Iroh as a Zhuangzian Wise Fool -- Viewers Appreciate That Iroh Is Wise from the Beginning -- A Zhuangzian Sage All Along -- Notes -- Chapter 21 Being Bad at Being Good: Zuko's Transformation and Residual Practical Identities -- Aspiration, Transformation, and Practical Identity -- Family, Shame, and Honor (Book One) -- "It's time for you to decide": Inheriting, Finding, and Choosing Destiny (Book Two) -- Being Bad at Being Good: Rethinking Honor and Destiny (Book Three) -- Becoming Good at Being Good -- Notes -- Chapter 22 Compassion and Moral Responsibility in Avatar: The Last Airbender: "I was never angry -- I was afraid that you had lost your way" -- Anger, Blame, and Responsibility -- Katara and the Uses and Misuses of Angry Blame -- Iroh and Compassionate Responses to Wrongdoing -- Zuko, Self-blame, and Self-compassion -- Sometimes We Can Let Go -- Notes -- Part V Air -- Chapter 23 The Fire Nation and the United States: Genocide as the Foundation for Empire Building -- Forging an Empire -- Genocide as Empire-building -- Appropriating History and Place -- Silent Wounds -- Notes -- Chapter 24 Anarchist Airbenders: On Anarchist Philosophy in Avatar: The Last Airbender -- What Is Anarchism? -- What Do Anarchists Believe?4 -- There Are No Unjust Hierarchies in Ba Sing Se -- Human Nature and Mutual Aid -- The Anarchist You Are -- Notes -- Chapter 25 A Buddhist Perspective on Energy Bending, Strength, and the Power of Aang's Spirit -- Powerful Vulnerability -- Unbendable Spirit -- Strength and Vulnerability -- Fearlessness and Power -- Notes -- Chapter 26 Ahimsa and Aang's Dilemma: "Everyone . . . [has] to be treated like they're worth giving a chance" -- Ethical Dilemmas -- Air Nomad Philosophy -- Avataric Philosophy -- Overcoming Dilemmas -- Notes.
Chapter 27 The Avatar Meets the Karmapa: Interconnections, Friendship, and Moral Training -- Can the Avatar or the Karmapa Have Friends? -- Moral Training: A Shared Journey -- Alienation, Betrayal, and Repentance: Zuko's Path to Team Avatar -- Journey's End and a Vision of a New Community -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.
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Avatar : The Last Airbender and philosophy, wisdom from Aang to Zuko / / edited by Johan De Smedt
