Avatar : the Last Airbender and philosophy : wisdom from Aang to Zuko /
The world is out of sorts. The four nations, Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, are imbalanced because of the unrelenting conquest of the Fire Nation. The only one who can restore balance to the world is the Avatar. On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However,...
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Avatar : |b the Last Airbender and philosophy : wisdom from Aang to Zuko / |c edited by Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Hoboken, NJ : |b John Wiley & Sons, Inc., |c 2023. | |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Blackwell philosophy and popculture series | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 14, 2022). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a The world is out of sorts. The four nations, Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, are imbalanced because of the unrelenting conquest of the Fire Nation. The only one who can restore balance to the world is the Avatar. On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world is a team effort, embodied in Team Avatar, aka the Gaang. Aang needs help from his friends and tutors, even from non-human animals. Through the teachings of Guru Pathik and Huu he comes to realize that though the world and its nations seem separate, we are all one people. We all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree. Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy brings to the fore the Eastern, Western, and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show. Following Uncle Iroh's advice that it is important to draw wisdom from many traditions, this volume features contributions by experts on Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Indigenous schools of thought, next to focusing on Western classical authors such as Plotinus, Kant, and Merleau-Ponty. The volume is also unique in drawing on less common traditions such as black abolitionism, anarchism, and the philosophy of martial arts. | ||
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