Is Democracy overrated?
Does energy corrupt? Or do corrupt humans search power?
Do company puppet masters pull politicians’ strings?
Why does Frank seek advice from the digital camera?
Can politics carry at the promise of justice?
House of Cards depicts our worst fears approximately politics at the present time. Love him or detest him, Frank Underwood has charted an inimitable path via Washington politics. He and his cohorts depict the darkest dealings in the glowing halls of our so much respected political associations.
These 24 unique essays research key philosophical concerns at the back of the critically-acclaimed series—questions of fact, justice, equality, chance, and privilege. The amoral machinations of Underwood, the last word anti-hero, function a terrific backdrop for a dialogue of the political theories of philosophers as various as Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Marx. From political and company ethics, race family, and ruthless paragmatism to mass media collusion and sexual politics, those essays take on various matters very important not just to the sequence yet to our knowing of society today.
Read Online or Download House of Cards and Philosophy: Underwood's Republic (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) PDF
Similar Philosophy books
Set instantly ahead of the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus indicates the good thinker contemplating the character of information itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his younger follower Theaetetus. Their discussion covers many questions, corresponding to: is wisdom in simple terms subjective, composed of the ever-changing circulation of impressions we obtain from the surface global?
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
Each day we appear to make and act upon all types of selections: a few trivial, others so consequential that they alter the process one's lifestyles, or perhaps the process background. yet are those offerings rather unfastened, or are we forced to behave the best way we do by means of elements past our keep an eye on? Is the sensation that shall we have made various judgements simply an phantasm?
The writer of the hugely renowned publication imagine, which period journal hailed as "the one booklet each shrewdpermanent individual may still learn to appreciate, or even take pleasure in, the main questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent philosopher who's capable of clarify philosophy to the overall reader. Now Blackburn bargains a travel de strength exploration of what he calls "the most fun and interesting factor within the entire of philosophy"--the age-old warfare over fact.
The Rise of Modern Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3
Sir Anthony Kenny's enticing new multi-volume heritage of Western philosophy now advances into the fashionable period. the increase of recent Philosophy captures the interesting tale of the emergence, from the early 16th to the early 19th century, of the nice principles and highbrow structures that formed glossy notion.
Extra resources for House of Cards and Philosophy: Underwood's Republic (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)
Even if we consider his coverage perspectives, he comes throughout as an honorable guy, real to his be aware, upstanding, and sincere. Given how without problems Frank makes use of and will get the higher of him, he in a roundabout way illustrates a Thrasymachian view of justice: whereas justice will not be a vice, it's a “very high-minded innocence,” a naivety in regards to the international and its workings that units its practitioners as much as be dupes and suckers, ripe for a superb fleecing. nine In Thrasymachian phrases, the unjust will get the higher of the simply and the lifetime of the previous comes out seeming top. And, if we are sincere, we need to admit that our “realist” selves are extra interested in Underwood than to Blythe. Or no less than we realize that the virtuous features we appreciate in a person like Blythe are anything of a legal responsibility in politics. It proves expedient for Frank to make him his vice chairman, but if the chance of his changing into a candidate for the presidency is raised, the occasion energy agents with no hesitation settle for Frank's review that he lacks what it takes. Heather Dunbar is usually instructive during this regard. She starts off her run for president devoted to high-minded beliefs approximately political campaigning, flatly rejecting, on most likely ethical grounds, a suggestion from Stamper to show political dust on Claire. in spite of the fact that, because the crusade progresses and issues warmth up, she alters her brain. She reaches out to Stamper to play the “abortion card,” as though at the moment she had discovered the cynical Thrasymachian lesson that great men end final: so that it will win, you should be prepared to hit lower than the belt. earrings of “Power” and Myths Frank's Sentinel type ring isn't essential to additional the plotline, however it serves a massive, symbolic function for either Frank and the viewer. usually, while he bangs his ring, it truly is within the context of a few new scheme. it truly is as if via this technique he invokes a type of energy, a unravel to get the object performed. He even has a delusion approximately its origins: that his father advised him it either hardens the knuckles and knocks on wood—preparation and success. it truly is not likely that this foundation tale is right; we now have already discovered, via an apart in the course of his sermon on the Gaffney funeral, that Frank has no recognize for his father (a element that will get bolstered in Season three while he urinates on his father's grave). notwithstanding, it does make for an outstanding tale that he can use to provoke others. In “Chapter 8,” concentrating on the recent library on the Sentinel, we research that it was once at this formative army academy that Frank “learned his craft. ” the hoop then, as a reminder of that position, may be a token of his craft, representing his ability at manipulation and his skill to get the higher of others via deception and treachery. For our reasons, the hoop additionally hyperlinks apartment of playing cards to 1 of the best notion experiments in ethical philosophy: the hoop of Gyges tale in e-book 2 of the Republic. the nature Glaucon introduces the tale to sharpen the placement of Thrasymachus (who by way of now has withdrawn from the discussion in disgust) through displaying that the majority humans would select the lifetime of injustice in the event that they knew they can break out with it.