Philosophy and Breaking Bad - Philosophy and Breaking Bad -

“We Tried to Poison You”: Breaking Evil What’s Stopping Me: Breaking Bad and Virtue Ethics Miltonic Ethics Sin Versus Vice: Two Traditions Notes Eichmann in Albuquerque “Stay Out of My Territory. ..”“Oh Well, Heil Hitler, Bitch!”“It Is the Purest, Most Chemically Sound Product on the Market, Anywhere. .“I Woke Up. I Found Her. That’s All I Know...”“You Are Not the Guy. ..”Conclusion Notes Empathy and Evil: Drug-Dealing Murderers Are People Too Stein’s Account of Empathy Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of the Phenomenal Body and Other Subjects The Ethical Component of Empathy Conclusion Notes “I Am the One Who Knocks”: The Shadow of Death and the Meaning of Life In the Shadow of the Sickness Unto Death: Walter White’s Transformation into the Knight of Meth From the Sickness Unto Death to Finding the Drug Lord in the Desert Adapting in the Shadow of Uncertainty The Mysterious Conjunction of Love and Death Toward the Alchemy of Breaking Bad Despair: Heisenberg and the Danger Participation Mystique Conclusion Notes Death Is Easy If You’re Dead Death Date Certain Walter, You Can’t Take It with You The Deconstruction of the Unsaid: Care Immortal or Eternal Conclusion Notes Cosmic Justice in Breaking Bad: Can Sociopaths and Antiheroes Lead Meaningful Lives?Cosmic and Terrestrial Meaning Hard Meaning-Subjectivism Soft Meaning-Subjectivism Theistic Theories Conclusion Notes Law and Morality in Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Justice There’s What’s Right and There’s What’s Right The Emergence of Positivism Walt’s Positively Wrong Problems of Justice The Transcendent, Aesthetic Justice of Breaking Bad “I Will Put You Under the Jail”: The Tragedy of Breaking Bad The Crumbling Patriarchy and Triumphant Feminist Ethic of Care in Breaking Bad “Who’s in Charge? Me”“A Man Provides”“Someone Has to Protect This Family from the Man Who Protects This Family”“I’m Not Your Wife. I’m Your Hostage”“Live Free or Die”“We Make Poison for People Who Don’t Care”“The Clinching Interlocking Claws, a Living, Fierce, Gyrating Wheel”Notes What Bad Is Not: Breaking Bad, Apophatic and Dramaturgic Continua from Creator to Viewer, and a Poetics of the Philosophy of Religion The Existence of God Poetics of the Problem of Evil and Gilligan’s Theodicy: Raising the Stakes Overlap of Scientism and Religious Literalism Negative Theology: Antidote to Reductionism? A Path of Redemptive Tragedy?Full-on Immersion in Defeat: The Initiation of Tragedy A Moral Aesthetic and “The Monster” of the Imagination: A Settlement Between Secular and Religious Ethics Strategies for Not Succumbing to Reduction Hugh Everett’s Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics From Art to World: Breaking the Demiurge Cycle Notes IV “I Did It for Me”: Morality, Mastery and Meth Recovering Lost Moral Ground: Can Walt Make Amends?Defending Yourself from Blame Justifying or Excusing Your Actions “He’ll Kill Your Entire Family If You Let Him Go”Rewriting the Past Collateral Damage For Good Reasons In Denial Reflections on the Guillotine Making Amends Notes (Im)Morality in Action The Transformation of Walter White: A Case Study in Bad Faith Breaking Bonds: White Lines of Love and Hate V Becoming Jesse James: Breaking Bad’s Challenge to Philosophy Hatred: Walter White Is Doing It All Wrong A Brief Theory of Vindictive Hatred, with Examples Walt and Hank Gray Matter How to Do Things with Bad Words Notes “We Are Responsible to All for All”: An Intersubjective Analysis of Breaking Bad Intersubjectivity Narrative How did we get here?Who is the neighbor?Fair enough: but who is the neighbor?Notes Theater of the Absurd: Breaking Bad as Edifying Philosophy Absurdity, or the Mystery in Broad Daylight “Because I Say So”The Elusiveness of Facticity Edifying Philosophy as Therapy for Absurdity Notes Bibliography