Ender's Game and Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Decker, Kevin S.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Ender’s Game and Philosophy
Copyright
Contents
Introduction What Is Ender’s Game?
Notes
Part One Third: The Making of an Impossible Child
Chapter 1 “The Teachers Got Me Into This”: Educational Skirmishes … with a Pinch of Freedom
Liberal Education Is Paideia’s Game
Vocational Prep: A Heaping Tablespoon, or the Main Dish?
Is Battle School Just Trade School?
Should Critical Inquiry Be Socratic or Social?
Critical Inquirer for the Dead
Educational Skirmishes
Notes
Chapter 2 Illusions of Freedom, Tragedies of Fate: The Moral Development of Ender Wiggin
Putting a Name to Evil
Evil and Its Refrain
Graff’s Sacrifice
The Moral Development of Ender Wiggin
Notes
Chapter 3 Xenocide’s Paradox: The Virtue of Being Ender
“A Little Private Moral Dilemma”
“The Name of Ender is One to Conjure With”
Plato or Aristotle?
Notes
Chapter 4 Teaching to the Test: Constructing the Identity of a Space Commander
“They’re Gonna Make You Do Time Out in the Belt …”
“Leader’s Aren’t Born, They Are Made”
Battle School Panopticon
Testing 1, 2, 3 …
“I’m Sure You Can Get Your Training at Someone Else’s Expense”
Every Action Has an Equal and Opposite Reaction
Notes
Part Two Game: Cooperation or Confrontation?
Chapter 5 The Enemy’s Gate Is Down: Perspective, Empathy, and Game Theory
Understanding Your “Enemy”
Understanding, Empathy, and Love
Loving Your Enemy
Back to the Game
The Enemy’s Gate
Notes
Chapter 6 War Games as Child’s Play
Paradox of the Heart and the Head
War Games
The Problem of Dirty Hands
Death Games and Moral Decision-Making
Moral Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fainter
Ender’s a Willing Pawn
Notes
Chapter 7 Forming the Formless: Sunzi and the Military Logic of Ender Wiggin
“Of Course We Tricked You Into It”
“The Enemy Outnumbered Him a Thousand to One”
Mazes and Formlessness
Notes
Chapter 8 Do Good Games Make Good People?
So What Is a Game, Anyway?
Games Without Goals?
This Game Is Deadly Serious
Do Good Games Make Good People?
Notes
Part Three Hive-Queen: All Together Now
Chapter 9 Bugger All!: The Clash of Cultures in Ender’s Game
Two Sides of the Same Coin, but Which Side Is Which?
When One Face Is Up, the Other Face Is Down
Two Faces of the Same Coin, and I Am the Metal in Between
Notes
Chapter 10 Why Ender Can’t Go Home: Philotic Connections and Moral Responsibility
Communicating Across the Galaxy
That Blasted Fantasy Game
Ender’s Quest for a New Home
Notes
Chapter 11 Of Gods and Buggers: Friendship in Ender’s Game
Ender, the Superman
Happiness or Power?
Ender, the Political Animal
“I the Sweetest Friend You Got”
Notes
Part Four War: Kill or Be Killed
Chapter 12 “I Destroy Them”: Ender, Good Intentions, and Moral Responsibility
“He Didn’t Just Beat Him. He Beat Him Deep”
“I Didn’t Want to Hurt Him!”
“All His Crimes Weighed Heavy on Him”
“Nevertheless, It’s Still You Doing Those Things”27
Notes
Chapter 13 Ender’s Beginning and the Just War
“The More You Obey, the More Power They Have Over You"
“I Don’t Have Murder in My Heart"
The Moral Equivalent of War
A Waste of Brief Mortality
“At Least You Have Some Survival Instinct Left”
Notes
Chapter 14 “You Had to Be a Weapon, Ender … We Aimed You”: Moral Responsibility in Ender’s Game
Involuntary Bugger-Slaughter
Why It’s Not Okay to Let Rich Kids Drown
“You Tricked Me Into It”
“The Real Education Was the Game”
“I’ll Tell Your Story to My People, So That Perhaps in Time They Can Forgive You …”
Notes
Chapter 15 The Unspoken Rules of Manly Warfare: Just War Theory in Ender’s Game
Peace Is the End of War
The Rules of the Game
Playing by the Rules
The Justice of Ender’s Games
Ender’s Last Game: The Justice of the Third Invasion
Notes
Part Five Hegemon: The Terrible Things Are Only About to Begin
Chapter 16 Locke and Demosthenes: Virtually Dominating the World
A Child’s Rise to Power
“Every Citizen Started Equal, on the Nets”
“[He] Knew How to Exploit Fear in His Writing”
New Friend Request from Hannah Arendt
“We’ll Be Too Entrenched to Suffer Much Loss”
The Heart of the Matter
Notes
Chapter 17 Ender’s Dilemma: Realism, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Power
Survival of the Fittest
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Ender’s Dilemma
The Power to Persuade
Fighting for the Future
Notes
Chapter 18 People Are Tools
Chosen to Save Humanity
The Tragedy of Ender’s Game
The Court-Martial of Colonel Hyrum Graff
What Is Ender’s Game?
Lessons from Ender’s Game
Notes
Convening Authorities of the Court Martial of Colonel Hyrum Graff
The Ansible Index