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243 pp., x. '1' in number line. Following "A Few Start-of-Term Notices", "Abbreviations", and "The Magic of Philosophy", Contents divided into 16 Essays in 4 Parts: [Part I] "GRYFFINDOR: The Characters of Harry's World" (1) Tom Morris, "The Courageous Harry Potter"; (2) Diana Mertz Hsieh, "Dursley Duplicity: The Morality and Psychology of Self-Deception"; (3) Harald Thorsrud, "Voldemort's Agents, Malfoy's Cronies, and Hagrid's Chums: Friendship in Harry Potter"; (4) Mimi R. Gladstein, "Feminism and Equal Opportunity: Hermione and the Women of Hogwarts"[Part II] "HUFFLEPUFF: Morality in Rowling's Universe" (5) Jerry L. Walls, "Heaven, Hell, and Harry Potter"; (6) Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb and W. Christopher Stewart, "Magic, Science, and the Ethics of Technology"; (7) Shawn E. Klein, "The Mirror of Erised: Why We Should Heed Dumbledore's Warning"; (8) Steven W. Patterson, "Kreacher's Lament: S.P.E.W. as a Parable on Discrimination, Indifference and Social Justice"; [Part III] "SLYTHERIN: Knockturn Alley and the Dark Arts" (9) Steven W. Patterson, "Is Ambition a Virtue? Why Slytherin Belongs at Hogwarts"; (10) David and Catherine Deavel, "A Skewed Reflection: The Nature of Evil"; (11) Jennifer Hart Weed, "Voldemort, Boethius, and the Destructive Effects of Evil"; (12) David Baggett, "Magic, Muggles and Moral Imagination"; [Part IV] RAVENCLAW: Many-Flavored Topics in Metaphysics" (13) Gareth B. Matthews, "Finding Platform 9 3/4: The Idea of a Different Reality"; (14) Michael Silberstein, "Space, Time, and Magic"; (15) Jason T. Eberl, "Why Voldemort Won't Just Die Already: What Wizards Can Teach Us About Personal Identity"; (16) Gregory Bassham, "The Prophecy-Driven Life: Fate and Freedom at Hogwarts"; Hogwarts Emeritus Faculty, pp. 227-231; Current Hogwarts Faculty, pp. 233-236; A Wizard's Index, pp. 237-243. Brown boards with black backstrip and brilliant gilt lettering; black endpapers. Dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) in shades of brown with Title lettering in orange across top half front cover; Subtitle in gray and with editor names in small white letters superimposed across middle front cover; color photo-illustration of a snowy owl at bottom center front cover. FLAWLESS. NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks; unusually fresh, tight binding. UNREAD. Gift-Giving Quality. …

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Title
Harry Potter and Philosophy : If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts
Author
David Baggett and Shawn E. Klein, Editors / Contributors: Tom Morris, Diana Mertz Hsieh, Harald Thorsrud, Mimi R. Gladstein, Jerry L. Walls, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort, W. Christopher Stewart, Shawn E. Klein, Steven W. Patterson, David Deavel, Catherine Deavel, Jennifer Hart Weed, David Baggett, Gareth B. Matthews, Michael Silberstein, Jason T. Eberl, Gregory Bassham
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago LaSalle, IL
Publication year
2004
Condition
As New
Dust jacket
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
1435114833
ISBN 13
9781435114838
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Series
Book 4 of 125: Popular Culture and Philosophy

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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