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Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy: Brains Before Bullets
| PUBLISHER | Wiley-Blackwell (08/21/2013) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | eBook (Open Ebook) |
"Brains before bullets" - ancient and modern wisdom for "mechanics and motorcycle enthusiasts"
Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, the Teller-Morrow family, and the ethics that surround their lives and activities.
- Provides fascinating moral insights into Sons of Anarchy, its key characters, plot lines and ideas
- Investigates compelling philosophical issues centering on loyalty, duty, the ethics of war, authority, religion and whether the ends justify the means
- Teaches complex philosophical ideas in a way that's accessible to the general interest reader in order to inspire them to further reading of the great philosophers
- Authors use their deep knowledge of the show to illuminate themes that are not always apparent even to die-hard fans
Are we right to admire members of a criminal organization?
Are the Sons of Anarchy really anarchists?
How does their relationship to their bikes help to shape the Sons' moral code?
Does membership in the MC tend to foster virtue or vice?
How do the club's practices and moral code make it like a religion?
FX's hit television series Sons of Anarchy draws viewers into the morally ambiguous world of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club, where standard societal conventions and authority are shunned and replaced with a moral framework based on the bonds of brotherhood, family, and community and where members frequently war with other outlaw groups and the federal government to protect their interests and those of their home base, the town of Charming, California. Featuring essays by philosophical fans of the show and drawing on the ideas of some of history's greatest philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Marx, and Nietzsche, Sons of Anarchy and Philosophy digs deep into the moral and political aspects of life in the MC - the ethics of loyalty, honor, and revenge, individual and group identity, the morality of war and terrorism, political authority, and religion.
Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, the Teller-Morrow family, and the ethics that surround their lives and activities.
"Brains before bullets" - ancient and modern wisdom for "mechanics and motorcycle enthusiasts"
Essential reading for fans of the show, this book takes readers deeper into the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, the Teller-Morrow family, and the ethics that surround their lives and activities.
- Provides fascinating moral insights into Sons of Anarchy, its key characters, plot lines and ideas
- Investigates compelling philosophical issues centering on loyalty, duty, the ethics of war, authority, religion and whether the ends justify the means
- Teaches complex philosophical ideas in a way that's accessible to the general interest reader in order to inspire them to further reading of the great philosophers
- Authors use their deep knowledge of the show to illuminate themes that are not always apparent even to die-hard fans