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Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad’Dib (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) By Kevin S. Decker – editor, William Irwin – series editor “He who controls the spice controls the universe.” Frank Herbert’s Dune saga is the sweeping story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called “spice.” To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene G
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- 1 00. Introduction - ''He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe'' 00:08:13
- 2 01. Liberating Women's Bodies - Feminist Philosophy and the Bene Gesserit of Dune 00:34:26
- 3 02. What Do Zendaya's Blue Eyes Really Mean 00:25:39
- 4 03. The Golden Path and Multicultural Meanings of Life 00:29:14
- 5 04. Messiahs, Jihads, and God Emperors - Should Humanity Just Give Up Religion 00:32:56
- 6 05. (Re)defining Masculinity and Femininity in Villeneuve's Dune 00:24:21
- 7 06. Spiritual Realm Adaptation - Arrakeen Spice, Terrestrial Psychedelics, and Technique 00:30:19
- 8 07. Thinking Like a Desert - Environmental Philosophy and Dune 00:26:27
- 9 08. Humans, Machines, and an Ethics for Technology in Dune 00:23:44
- 10 09. ''Thou Shalt Make a Human Mind in the Likeness of a Machine'' - Imitation, Thinking Machines, and Mentats 00:29:49
- 11 10. Herbert's Gholas - Mystical Legends and Scientific Inspiration 00:29:33
- 12 11. Psychological Expanses of Dune - Indigenous Philosophy, Americana, and Existentialism 00:28:49
- 13 12. Thatched Cottages at Cordeville - Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of Art in Dune 00:32:10
- 14 13. Should the Bene Gesserit Be in Charge 00:32:50
- 15 14. Prisoners of Prophecy - Freedom and Foreknowledge in the Dune Series 00:24:11
- 16 15. Time versus History - A Conflict Central to Herbert's Dune 00:24:22
- 17 16. Secher Nbiw and the Child's Right to an Open Future 00:24:45
- 18 17. The Spice of Life - Hedonism and Nozick in the Dune Universe 00:18:10
- 19 18. ''Less Than a God, More Than a Man'' - Is It Morally Wrong to Make a Kwisatz Haderach 00:27:07
- 20 19. That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Shai-Hulud - Self-overcoming in Nietzsche, Hinduism, and Dune 00:25:28
- 21 20. The God Emperor and the Tyrant - The Political Theology of Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 00:28:41
- 22 21. Lessons from Islamic Philosophy on the Politics of Paul Atreides 00:28:56
- 23 22. Why Settle for Hobbes's Sovereign When You Could Have a God Emperor 00:25:33
- 24 23. The Mind at War - Conflict and Cognition in Frank Herbert's Dune 00:29:19
