The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy : Respect My Philosophah!

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Introduction: “Well, I’m Afraid It’s About to Happen Again”: Introducing The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy
Part I: Doing Philosophical Things with South Park
	1. Flatulence and Philosophy: A Lot of Hot Air, or the Corruption of Youth?
		Oh my God! They Killed Socrates! You Bastards!
		Cartman Gets a Banal Probe
		Friendship Kicks Ass! The Dialogues of Kyle and Stan
		An Apology for South Park: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Cartman
		The Talking Cure for Our Culture
		Notes
	2. You Know, I Learned Something Today: Stan Marsh and the Ethics of Belief
		Belief and Evidence
		Faith, Self-Interest, and Evidence
		What’s the Harm, Dude?
		Inquiry, Hard Work, and Progress
		Notes
	3. “Imaginationland,” Terrorism, and the Difference Between Real and Imaginary
		Critical Thinking and Theory
		Unimaginative Leadership?
		Just Because They’re Imaginary Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Real
		Only You Can Help Us Win This Battle
		Notes
	4. Dude, Listen to Reason! Logic Lessons Inside and Outside South Park
		If You Do Drugs, Then You’re a Hippie
		Deductions and Inductions
		The Good, the Bad, and … Well, That’s It Really
		“If Chewbacca Lives on Endor, You Must Acquit”
		Slippery Slopes
		The Defense Rests
		Note
Part II: South Park and … Religion
	5. Science, Religion, South Park, and God
		Hail Science! Hail Science!
		Being Too Soft?
		Ha, Ha, Ha. You Believe in a Supernatural Being
		Maybe Just Believing in God Makes God Exist
		Oh My Science!
		Getting Rid of All of the Isms
		Notes
	6. “Your Magic Is No Match for Our Powers Combined!”—Religious Pluralism and the Search for Truth
		Let’s Meet the Super Best Friends
		Pick Any Religion, and Picture It in Your Mind
		Go God Go
		2 + 2 = 5
		“David Blaine Will Now Eat His Own Head”
		You Gotta Have Faith
		Waiting for God (Oh!)
		Notes
	7. Cartmanland and the Problem of Evil
		“And That’s It?” The Story of Job
		The Sweet Milk of Our Tears
		“You Are Up There!”
		Free Hat, Free Willzyx, Free Will
		“Are You There God? It’s Me, Jesus”
		“Go God Go”
		Notes
Part III: South Park versus … Religion
	8. “Respect My Religiositah!”—South Park and Blasphemy
		Don’t Make Fun of My Faith!
		Suck My Balls: Is Nothing Sacred?
		Can’t We All Just Get Along?
		Comedy Central Caves In
		200–201: The Cartoon Wars Escalate and Guess Who Caves Again?
		Is South Park Responsible for the Decline of Western Civilization?
		Notes
	9. Mary’s Menses and Morality: Blasphemy in South Park
		What in God’s Name Is Blasphemy?
		Do You Care at All About People’s Feelings? A Utilitarian Perspective
		South Park Has the Potential to Make People Think
		You Have to Hit Them With a Sledgehammer
		Just Pissing People Off
		Notes
	10. South Park, The Book of Mormon, and How Religious Fundamentalists Always Find a Way to Be Naive and Arrogant at the Same Time
		A Mormon Just Believes
		You’re Making Things Up Again
		Boys Should Be With Girls, That’s Heavenly Father’s Plan
		God Has a Plan for All of Us (That Plan Involves Me Getting My Own Planet)
		I Am a Latter-Day Saint!
		Notes
Part IV: Respecting My Authoritah! in South Park
	11. Juvenile Hijinks With Serious Subtext: Dissent and Democracy in South Park
		Karl Popper, the Open Society, and Its Enemies
		South Park and the “Enemies”
		Not Tolerating a Tolerance for Intolerance
		Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of Modern Democracy
		Notes
	12. Of Marx and Mantequilla: Labor and Immigration in “The Last of the Meheecans”
		Work, Proletariat Work
		Of Jobs and Meheecans
		Window… Wiiiiiiindow: The (Mis)uses of Meheecan Labor Power
		Marx, Race, and Nation
		All You Have to Lose Is Your Encadenamientos
		Notes
	13. “Vote or Die, Bitch”—Does Every Vote Count in a Two-Party System?
		Enfranchised? So What!
		Going to (Electoral) College
		Liberty or Death?
		Vote for Me, and Only for Me
		You Wanna (Third) Party?
		Stability in a Political Storm
		Notes
	14. Socioeconomic Darwinism from a South Park Perspective
		Class Warfare Over the One-Percent Fat Fucking Pigs
		Zombie See, Zombie Do Among the Economic Undead
		Corporate CEOs as Underpants Gnomes
		Moral in a Nutshell
		Notes
Part V: Liber-arianism in South Park
	15. Cartman Shrugged: South Park and Libertarian Philosophy
		High Philosophy and Low Comedy
		Speaking the Unspeakable
		A Plague on Both Your Houses
		Defending the Undefendable
		The Town of South Park versus Harbucks
		The Great Gnome Mystery Solved
		The Wal-Mart Monster
		Notes
	16. Sitting Downtown at Kentucky Fried Chicken: One Toke Over the Line
		Libertarianism and Legislating Lifestyles
		In Harm’s Way?
		Drugs Are Bad, M’Kay
		Mary Jane, M.D.
		I’ll Make Sure You’re Hooked Up for Life
		Fuck You, You Intersubjective Fuck!
		“I Just Want You to Look at Me When We Make Love, and Not Just at My Balls.”
		Douchebag Prisoners’ Dilemma
		“Sharon, You Got a Scrotum Coat? Lucky!”
		Notes
	17. Cat Urine, Medicinal Fried Chicken, and Smoking: South Park’s Anti-Paternalistic Libertarianism
		Self-Ownership and Paternalism
		Consequentialist Reasons to Avoid Paternalism
		Deontological Reasons to Avoid Paternalism
		The Final Say As to How to Run One’s Life
		Notes
Part VI: There’s a Time and a Place for Everything, Children
	18. You (Still) Can’t Get Married, You’re Faggots: Mrs. Garrison and the Gay Marriage Debate
		My God, Nature, and the Dictionary Say “No!”
		You Think Kids Can Be Raised by Queers?
		They’re Going to Allow Queers and Homos to Get Married, Huh?
		Teacher, Our Egg Is Fine−Gays Can Get Married
		Being “Butt Buddies” Isn’t the Same as Being Married
		Notes
	19. Cute and Cuddly Animals versus Yummy Animals
		All Animals Are Created Equal … Not Really! (and the Japanese Hate Whales and Dolphins)
		Tortured Baby Cows and Vaginitus
		Kids versus Adults and Cuddly Animals versus Yummy Animals
		The Line Goes Here, Not There!
		Don’t Worry, You Probably Won’t Turn into a Giant Pussy
		Fun with Animals and Crazy Animal Rights Activists
		Notes
	20. Aesthetic Value, Ethos, and Phil Collins: The Power of Music in South Park
		“Maybe I Can Put It Best in the Words of a Timeless Song”
		Diegesis in South Park
		Musical Spraying
		Music to Move Plato’s Soul
		Phil Collins and Aesthetic Value
		Schopenhauer and “Death”
		The Only Way It Works Is Through Music
		Notes
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