The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!

The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect My Philosophah!
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	Contents
	Introduction: “Well, I’m Afraid It’s About to Happen Again” Introducing The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy
		Note
	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
	Contributors
	Index