By Jane Dryden, Mark D. White, William Irwin
The first examine the philosophy in the back of the golf green Lantern comics—timed for the discharge of the Green Lantern motion picture in June 2011
The latest Green Lantern series—Blackest Night—propelled GL to be the top-selling comedian sequence for greater than a 12 months, the newest twist in seven many years of eco-friendly Lantern adventures. This booklet sheds mild at the deep philosophical matters that emerge from the fairway Lantern Corps's tales and characters, from what Plato's story of the hoop of Gyges tells us concerning the eco-friendly Lantern ring and the need for energy as to whether dedication is crucial energy to who's the best eco-friendly Lantern of all time.
- Gives you a brand new viewpoint on eco-friendly Lantern characters, tale strains, and themes
- Shows what philosophical heavy hitters resembling Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant can educate us approximately contributors of the golf green Lantern Corp and their world
- Answers your such a lot urgent eco-friendly Lantern questions, together with: What motivates Hal Jordan to be a eco-friendly Lantern? Does the Blackest evening strength us to confront previous male/female stereotypes? what's the foundation for ethical judgment within the eco-friendly Lantern Corps? Is Hal Jordan a murderer?
Whether you are a new fan or an elder from Oa, Green Lantern and Philosophy is a must have significant other.
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16. , 409. 17. Action Comics Weekly #642 (June 1989). 18. Richard Holton, Willing, Wanting, Waiting (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009), particularly chapter 6. 19. Mark Muraven and Roy F. ” Psychological Bulletin 126 (2000): 247–259, at 247, 254. 20. Action Comics Weekly #625 (December 1988). 21. Green Lantern, vol. 2, #149 (February 1982). However, in Green Lantern, vol. 4, #26 (February 2008; reprinted in Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns, 2009), John Stewart uses his ring to reconstruct the planet of Xanshi (which was destroyed due to his arrogance during 1988’s Cosmic Odyssey miniseries), and his ring says, “Warning.
4 When discussing Sinestro’s motivations, some may say that while he wants others to act out of fear, he holds himself exempt from this standard. 5 Like the Sinestro Corps, the Violet Lantern Corps was started by a long-time Green Lantern villain, Star Sapphire. 6 Let’s set aside the fact that violet light is powering a person whose name refers to a blue gem—and whose costume is pink—and move on to a discussion of the Violet Lanterns’ emotional focus. Violet Lanterns, just like John Lennon, will tell you that love is all you need.
White and black corps have also been introduced, but since they represent life and death, rather than emotions, they will not be discussed in this chapter. 2. The way the green light is discussed in the comics can be a little confusing. When the emotional spectrum is discussed, the green light is included, suggesting that it should be understood as an emotion. At other times it is discussed as the ability to overcome fear (when a green ring approaches a new candidate for the corps, for instance).
