Jane Dryden & Mark D. White 
Green Lantern and Philosophy [EPUB ebook] 
No Evil Shall Escape this Book

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: No Gratitude Shall Escape.
Our Sight.
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to the Corps!
Part One Will and Emotion: The Philosophical
Spectrum.
1The Blackest Night for Aristotle’s Account of Emotions
(Jason Southworth).
2 Flexing the Mental Muscle: Green Lanterns and the Nature of
Willpower (Mark D. White).
3 Women Are from Zamaron, Men Are from Oa (Sarah K. Donovan
and Nicholas P. Richardson).
Part Two Emerald Ethics: It’s Not All Black and
White.
4 Will They Let Just Anybody Join? Testing for Moral
Judgment in Green Lantern Corps (Andrew Terjesen).
5 The Greatest Green Lantern: Aesthetic Admiration and the
Praiseworthy Hero (Jane Dryden).
6 There Should Be No Forgiveness for Hal Jordan (Nicolas
Michaud).
7 Morality, Atonement, and Guilt: Hal Jordan’s Shifting
Motivations (Joseph J. Darowski).
Part Three I’m with Green Lantern: Friends and
Relationships.
8 Hard-Traveling Ethics: Moral Rationalism vs. Moral
Sentimentalism (Andrew Terjesen).
9. ‘I Despise Messiness’: The Plato-Aristotle Debate
in the Troubled Friendship of Green Lantern and Green Arrow
(Brett Chandler Patterson).
10 Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Live Without
‘Em: Green Lantern, Relationships, and Autonomy (Jane
Dryden).
Part 4. With This Ring, I Thee Swear: Power, Duty, and
Law.
11 The Oaths of Soranik Natu: Can a Doctor Be a Green Lantern?
(Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth).
12 Crying for Justice: Retributivism for Those Who Worship
Evil’s Might (Mark D. White).
13 Hate Crimes as Terrorism in Brother’s Keeper (Ron
Novy).
14 Ring of Gyges, the Ring of the Green Lantern, and the
Temptation of Power (Adam Barkman).
Part Five Don’t Tell Krona: Metaphysics, Mind and
Time.
15 All For One and One For All: Mogo, the Collective, and
Biological Unity (Leonard Finkelman).
16 Green Mind: The Book of Oa, the Lantern Corps, and
Peirce’s Theory of Communal Mind (Paul R.
Jaissle).
17 Shedding an Emerald Light on Destiny: The problem with Time
Travel (Amy Kind).
Part Six Can Green Lantern Make a Boxing Glove He
Can’s Lift? Powers and Limitations.
18. Another Glove? Green Lantern and the Limits of Imagination
(Daniel P. Malloy).
19. ‘Beware my Power’: Leibniz and Green Lantern on
God, Omnipotence, and Evil (Carsten Fogh Nielsen).
20. Magic and Science in the Green Lantern Mythos:
Clarke’s Law, the Starheart, and Emotional Energy (Andrew
Zimmerman Jones).
CONTRIBUTORS: Tales of the Philosophy Corps.
INDEX: The Book of Oa.

Jane Dryden is an assistant professor of philosophy at Mount
Allison University.
Mark D. White is a professor in the Department of
Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of
Staten Island, CUNY. He coedited Batman and Philosophy and
edited Watchmen and Philosophy and Iron Man and
Philosophy.
William Irwin is a professor of philosophy at King’s
College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy
and popular culture genre of books as coeditor of the bestselling
The Simpsons and Philosophy and has overseen recent titles
including Batman and Philosophy, House and
Philosophy, and Mad Men and Philosophy.