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English 177 Literature and Philosophy Concept Map-, The greater good, mob…
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The greater good, mob mentality, societal responsibility and societal morality
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer
The 2012 film follows Anwar Congo and his colleagues. In 1966 Congo and his fellow gangsters perpetuated a genocide of ethnic Chinese people in Indonesia. The current regime traces its history back to the genocide. Anwar is seen as a folk hero by para military groups. The film explores the mentality of the perpetrators through scenes of their own creations.
Mob mentality
Demonstrates what happens when the mass murders win. Unlike the Nazi's that lost, Anwar Congo and his colleagues were never brought to justice. The Indonesian genocide of 1965 was successful in purging the "communists".
Utilitarianism - J.S. Mills
An essay first published in 1861, it explores the ethics of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is an ethical theroy that seeks to maximiize happiness for the majority of people.
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The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas - Ursula Le Guin
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a 1973 short literary philosophical fiction. The narrator describes a summer festival in the Utopian city of Omelas; whoose propserity depends on a single child scapegoat.
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One child suffering for the greater good of society is a challenge to Ultitarianism idea of the greater good. Further challenges happiness of certain indiduals over that of a single suffering chilf
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
First published in 1886, the book crticizes previous philosphers for their dogma and establsihment of metaphysical systems based on good and evil. Nietzsche argues against tradional morality and supports a philosophy grounded on individual perspective
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The Souls of BLack Folk - WEB Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 philosophical literature by W.E.B DuBois. The piece is seminal in Sociology and African American American literature. It examines the idea that African Americans have a double identity through double consciousness.
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But What Are You Really? The Metaphysics of Race - Charles W. Mills
Charles W. Mills is a Jamaican Philosopher. His essay examines what races is and its role in identity.
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
The book is explores Moral Philosophy. Kant proposes the Categorical Imperative is the foundation for his philosophy.
Moral Duty (as opposed to mere inclination, desire, etc)
Maxim (actions are judged by the initial “maxim,” or principle/motivation, not by consequence or turnout of the action)
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Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by Hannah Arendt. Arendt,a Jewish journalist, reported on Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker. The piece examines Eichmaan's state of mind and proposes the idea of the Banality of Evil. Arendt argues that the true crime was one of thoughtlessness. Eichmaan attempted to defend himself using his own interpretation of Kant's Categorical Imperative.
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Sophocles
Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in 441 BCE. It is part of the Three Theban plays and follows the heroin Antigone as she faces the consequences of burying her disgraced brother Polynices. She is opposed by the new king Creon, father of her father Haemon.
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Get Out - Jordan Peele
Get out examines race relations such as interracial relationships and exploitation. The main character Chris is visiting his girlfriends parents upstate. He uncovers a plot to kidnap African Americans to transfer the consciousness of white "masters." *The process involves transferring the mind of an older white individual to a physically capable African American.
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Judith Butler- Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Butler reviewed Beauvoir's work. The essay examines previous philosophies that dealt with gender theory.
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Simone de Buvoir
he Second Sex is a 1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses women's treatment and role in society. The author explores what it is to be a woman and the idea that one is not born in a woman, but becomes a woman.
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Rene Descartes Meditations
Descartes meditations argues for the existance of God and the soul. The soul in his work is similar to the mind. Descartes proposed the foundational principle : Cogito I think therefore I am
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
Locke influenced and critical of Descartes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience
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Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust
The philosphical book examines the role of the sense in identity and memory.
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Previous Philsophies are dogmatic and reflection of the philopsher. In order to rise above it all one must be self critical to the point of being unrecognizable and misunderstood by society.
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Heigil to be is to have become, to have been made as one manifests oneself
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism is a Humanism. It is a famous 1946 lecture that defends the concept of Existentialism.
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