Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There
by Robert Arp and Jerold J. Abrams and Elizabeth F. Cooke and Jason P. Blahuta and George A. Dunn and Robert Sharp and David Roden and Randall M. Jensen and David Kyle Johnson and Erik D. Baldwin and Andrew Terjesen and Jennifer A. Vines and Taneli Kukkonen and Eric J. Silverman and James McRae and Sarah Conly and David Koepsell and J. Robert Loftis and Tracie Mahaffery and Amy Kind and Brian Willems
What's the point of living after your world has been destroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel's critically acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica. More than just an action-packed "space opera," each episode offers a dramatic character study of the human survivors and their Cylon pursuers as they confront existential, moral, metaphysical, theological, and political crises. This book addresses some of the key questions to which the Colonials won't find easy answers, even when they reach Earth: Are Cylons persons? Is Baltar's scientific worldview superior to Six's religious faith? Can Starbuck be free if she has a special destiny? Is it ethical to cut one's losses and leave people behind? Is collaboration with the enemy ever the right move? Is humanity a "flawed creation?" Should we share the Cylon goal of "transhumanism"? Is it a really a big deal that Starbuck's a woman?
Release Date:
January 13, 2008
