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Game Of Thrones And Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords (2012)

by Henry Jacoby(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1118161998 (ISBN13: 9781118161999)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

John Wiley & Sons

series

Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture

review 1: Тази книга е част от много любопитната серия, която използва примери от популярни телевизионни шоута, книги и филми, за да обяснява основни положения във философията.Вписвайки се в интригата на Игра на тронове, авторът използва политическата ситуация във Весерос за да обясни идеите на Джон Лок, Платон, Томас Хобс, Макиавели и др. влиятелни философи, изказали се по въпросите на държавността, управлението, гражданския морал и т... more.н. като за всеки намират герой, който най-добре ги въплъщава.Като цяло занимателно и любопитно. Може да даде начален философски тласък на хора, досега неизкушени от подобни мисли.
review 2: After abandoning George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" in disgust on page 29 having suffered mightily through cardboard characters and all the muddled authorial insight of a shoelace, I swore I would not get sucked into the tv show. But people kept talking about it. I blame them. Frankly, I was and remain appalled by the brevity of story intervals between the metronomically pornographic refrains of nude-women-sucking-cock, which occur with the regularity and inevitability of network television commercial breaks. Despite these cringe-worthy moments, I quickly became addicted to this show. My addiction is entirely the fault of the sumptuous costuming and gratuitously gorgeous set decor, not to mention those heinous location scouts, who routinely choose some of the most beautiful places on the earth to film, not to mention the sheer brilliance of the cast. Curse them! Indulge me just a moment to name some names: Charles Dance ... Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ... Peter Dinklage ... Lena Hedley ... wow, wow and triple wow. Game of Thrones and Philosophy: In the vein of Lost and Philosophy, and House and Philosophy, also edited by Henry Jacoby, this series is pop philosophy and if you like both pop culture and thinking about things that make your brain hurt, anything in William Irwin series is a sheer entertainment. Some of the more thought-provoking essays included Tedesco's "It Would Be Mercy ..." which reviews the concepts of passive versus active euthanasia; Stacy Goguen nods at the brilliant Gayatri Spivak when she suggests how chivalry and colonialism cause similar cultural rot and ruination. It is true that a few of these essays read more like fandom than philosophy (let us not forget these are still the uncool kids writing about the cool ones) but I'd rather read a twenty-first century nerdlet's Hobbsian take on Westeros than what Snookie ate for breakfast.-----One essay in particular has been rattling around in my brain: Jacoby's "No One Dances the Water Dance", which makes the claim that martial arts studies are good for the character. In a section entitled "Virtues and the Good Life" Mr. Jacoby introduces virtue ethics, and as we know, these are not governed by universal ethics--but rather by culturally narrow ones. To live happily and well--to bring eudaimonia, aka well-being or flourishing, or flow, to one's existence one should practice virtue. The point is that almost everyone who has ever studied martial arts realizes the master-pupil relationship is essentially based on economics. A master teaches for the money. While we all love the stories where the master recognizes the excellent student and suddenly the economic relationship is transcended as the student is raised to prodigal son, this recurring theme has been done to death. The relationship is rather based on the equation of how much I am willing to pay you (or work for you) for what you will teach me. Once filthy lucre has been introduced into the equation what results is virtue for sale. So, yes, Zen, Taoism, Ninjutsu and needle-work all have components that are as much choice as GDP. If it is true that virtue can be learned through practice, and a master can induce virtue in student in a way that a personal trainer can induce muscles in her client, then if virtue equals happiness then yes, happiness is for sale for the price of a personal coach. Really? less

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