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The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) QUOTES

The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) QUOTES

1 " Sidious sabe que la ley no es más que una herramienta disponible para cualquiera que tenga la sabiduría de saber que no existe justicia sin poder, y que un poder suficiente puede hacer que cualquier cosa sea justa "

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2 " Sidious knows that the law is just a tool waiting to be used by anyone wise enough to see that there is no justice beyond power, and that enough power can make anything just. "

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3 " The absolute duty can lead one to do what ethics would forbid, but it can never lead the knight of faith to stop loving. Abraham demonstrates this. In the moment he is about to sacrifice Isaac, the ethical expression for what he is doing is this: he hates Isaac.” Luke's situation is reversed, because he must resist murder while Abraham must force it. The central idea is that all worldly concerns are subordinate to the higher religious demands of God, even if they contradict our normal ethical duties. 10 "

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4 " For both Jedi and Stoics, philosophy is a way of life, not just a subject for study. Epictetus advised people to seek virtue through wisdom, to become conscious of what is and is not in their control, and to avert themselves from pleasure and pain by being aware of the present and practicing indifference. "

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