Take a magic carpet ride through Disney’s wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring stories Philosophy begins in wonder, and there’s no question that Disney’s immersive worlds and iconic characters have enchanted generations of children and adults alike, inviting us to escape the mundane into a world of fantasy, imagination, and infinite possibility. In Disney and Philosophy, essays from thirty-two deep-thinking Disneyphiles chart a course through the philosophical world of Disney, tapping into the minds of the great sages of the ages—Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Descartes, and Goofy—to explore universal questions of freedom, personal identity, morality, family, and friendship: Can Sleeping Beauty know that she’s not dreaming? Does turning our emotions and memories “inside out” tell us who we are? What can Toy Story and Wall-E teach us about being human? Is hakuna matata really such a problem-free philosophy? If you’ve ever asked who you are, what is right, or what your purpose is, Disney and Philosophy will spark your curiosity and imagination with a whole new world of unexpected insight into the Magic Kingdom.

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RICHARD BRIAN IRWIN, WILLIAM DAVIS

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

American Geophysical Union

Wiley-Blackwell

The Blackwell philosophy and pop culture series, Hoboken, NJ, 2020

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (trade), Hoboken, NJ, 2020

United States, United States of America

1, PS, 2019

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors: “It’s a Whole Family of Supers”
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I “The Seaweed Is Always Greener in Somebody Else’s Lake”
Chapter 1 Unruly Ariel: Not Born but Made a Woman
Flip the Script
Silencing Women and a Mermaid
You Don’t Complete Me
A Hope for the Future
Notes
Chapter 2 “True to Your Heart”: Honor and Authenticity in Mulan
“Honor to Us All”
“Protect My People”
“Mulan, You Dishonor Me”
“What Do You Mean You’re Not Lucky?”
“Who is that Girl I See?”
“Your Heart Knows”
Notes
Chapter 3 Zen and the Art of Imagineering: Disney’s Escapism Versus Buddhism’s Liberation
When You Wish upon a Bodhi Tree
Under the Sea or Part of your World?
May the Cash Be with You
Hakuna Matata, Bodhisattva
Notes
Chapter 4 Hidden Mickeys and the Hiddenness of God
Emphatic Silence: the Experience of Divine Hiddenness
The Argument from Divine Hiddenness
When Is a Hidden Mickey a Hidden Mickey?
The Disanalogy Between Hidden Mickeys and Divine Hiddenness
Might God Be Hidden for Love’s Sake?
Notes
Part II “I’ll be Shooting for My Own Hand”
Chapter 5 “Everyone’s Special Dash”: Tolerance and Conformity in a World of Incredible Differences
“Join Us or Go Away!”
Mill’s Maxims
“Cogs that Fit, that Cooperate by Design”
Notes
Chapter 6 Accommodating Dory, but Disempowering Dopey? Dilemmas of Disability from Snow White to Finding Dory
Seven Dwarfs, a Mouse, and the Medical Model
Disability as “Part of Your World”?
“You Remembered in Your Own Amazing Dory Way!”
Does Dopey’s Disempowered Legacy Live On?
What We Have Learned, or “Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide!”
Notes
Chapter 7 From Snow White to Moana: Understanding Disney’s Feminist Transformation
Someday my Prince Will Come
Once upon a Dream
Kiss the Girl
Let It Go
How Far I’ll Go
Notes
Chapter 8 “Always a Team, Always United”: Disney’s Philosophy of the Family
Acting IMPishly
Locke’s Liberty to Leave
Pongo, Perdita, and Procreation
Heaven’s Light or Frollo’s Song?
“You Can’t Grow Up Without a Decent Education, You Know”
“Done Properly, Parenting is Heroic”
Robots and Romance
Notes
Part III “Your Identity Is Your Most Valuable Possession”
Chapter 9 How to Convince Sleeping Beauty She’s Not Dreaming
Maleficent, the Evil Genius
Epistemology’s Prince Charming
The Flight of Phillip’s Sword
Visions Are Often all they Seem
Happily Ever After
Notes
Chapter 10 Knowing Who you Are: Existence Precedes Essence in Moana
“This Suits You”
“But the Voice Inside Sings a Different Song”
“That Voice Inside is Who You Are”
“Do You Know Who You Are?”
“I Am Moana!”
Notes
Chapter 11 Saving Mr. Banks: Reclaiming Our Childhood, Remembering Who We Are
Unexamined is the Life I Lead
The Man Who Forgot Who He Was
“Please Return to the Nursery”
Let’s Go Fly a Kite!
Notes
Chapter 12 WALL·E and EVE: Disney’s Intelligent Machines
WALL·E : a Significantly Different Pixar Film
Is WALL·E Artificially Intelligent?
Analyzing “Artificial”
Interpreting “Intelligence”
Where Do We Go from Here?
Notes
Chapter 13 Inside Disney’s Inside Out
I Feel, Therefore I Am
“Riley, Just Be Okay. Okay?”
I Think, Therefore I Am?
Inside the Lived Body
Notes
Part IV “You can Be Anyone You Want to Be”
Chapter 14 To Be or Not to Be ... the Lion King: Existentialism in Disney and Shakespeare
The Courage to Be and to Become
Hamlet’s Circle of Death
From Aesthetic to Ethical
Rafiki Holds the Mirror Up to Nature
Notes
Chapter 15 True Freedom in Toy Story, or You Are a Child’s Plaything!
Stay Out of My Room!
That’s No Happy Child
There’s Been a Bit of a Mix‐Up: This Is My Spot
Strange Things Are Happenin’
Not Sid’s Room! Not there...
Who Am I ... To Break Up the Roundup Gang?
You Don’t Know Who You Are, Do You?
I’m Still Andy’s Toy
He Can’t Hurt You No More
First Thing You Gotta’ Know About Me: I’m a Hugger
He’ll Be There For You, No Matter What
Chapter 16 “Our Fate Lives Within Us”: Character and Choice in Brave
What Is a Queen?
Become Who You Are
Being Led
On Being and Not Being Bears
Changing Fate or Being Changed by Fate?
Notes
Chapter 17 Breaking the Spell: Beauty and the Beast and Plato’s Prisoner
The Enchanting Trap
Freeing Plato’s Prisoner
“What If She’s the One?”
Beauty and Love’s Pursuit
Encountering Beauty
Love Sets Things Free
Happily Ever After?
Notes
Chapter 18 True Love in Frozen
“Please, I Know You’re in There”: The Absence of the Other
“Let It Go”: The Psychology of True Love
Love Is an Open Door: The Deception of the Typical Romance Narrative
Stronger than One, Stronger than Ten: Defining an Act of True Love
“For the First Time in Forever”
We Can Fix this Hand in Hand
Notes
Part V “Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide”
Chapter 19 Mencius Spins The Emperor’s New Groove
Kuzcotopia, Ox Mountain, and Family
“Give‐Aways” and Thought‐Experiments
Drama Llamas and Compassion Sprouts
Kuzco’s Two Journeys
The Rhythm by Which We Live Our Lives
Notes
Chapter 20 “Handed Down from Goof to Goof”: What Goofy Can Teach Us About Becoming Good
The Art of Narration
“Could You Back Up a Bit, Mr. Foot, Uh, You’re Out of Focus”
“There’s Nothin’ Can Upset Me Cause Now We’re on Our Way. Our Trusty Map Will Guide Us Straight and True”
“You Know, It’s Funny, But None of Your Techniques Worked for Me. The Harder I Tried the Worse it Got. Once I Eased Up, Things Just Clicked”
“It’s Been Handed Down from Goof to Goof to Goof, and Now, It’s Yours, Son”
Notes
Chapter 21 “Let Slip the (Donald) Ducks of War!”: Ethical Considerations About Disney’s War Propaganda
What Are the Disney Propaganda Films?
What Is Propaganda?
The Point of Propaganda
Is Propaganda Permissible?
Notes
Chapter 22 WALL·E, the Environment, and Our Duties to Future Generations
The Problem of Future Generations
The Problem of Valuing Nature Like Persons
Capitalist Greed Gets in the Way of Valuing Nature and Persons
Intergenerational Ships and Sustainable Duties
Notes
Chapter 23 Is There Any Utopia in Zootopia?
Man Is a Wolf to Man
“You Can Only Be What You Are”
“Deep Down, We’re Animals”
“Even Though You’re a Fox?”
Where Humans Did Happen
“Real Life Is Messy”
Notes
Part VI The Wonderful Worldview of Disney
Chapter 24 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Disney: Marx and Marcuse at Disney World
Heigh‐ho, Heigh‐ho, It’s Off to Work We Go
Now Is the Best Time of Your Life! (Isn’t It?)
#EuphoricExhaustedBroke
Escaping to the Disney Bubble
But Everybody Needs a Laughin’ Place
Things Worth Believing
Notes
Chapter 25 Colonizing the Geography of the Imagination: Media, Mind, and the Magic Kingdom
Johnny Depp Is Channeling Keith Richards as a Permanent Peter Pan Disguised as Captain Hook Doing a Pepe Le Pew
We Have Found the Lemmings, and They Are Us
Give Me That Old Time Mythology
The Visual Containment of Metaphysical Values
Hey Goofy! Somebody Just Slipped My Culture a Mickey...
Notes
Chapter 26 “We’re All Gonna Die”: Death and the Cycle of Life in Disney
“Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, ‘I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.’ Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.” —Dug, in Up
“If you weren’t you, then we’d all be a bit less we” —Piglet, Winnie the Pooh
“’Ohana means ‘family.’ ‘Family’ means ’no one gets left behind’” —Lilo, Lilo and Stitch
“The time has come, gypsy. You stand upon the brink of the abyss” —Claude Frollo
I think we’ve all arrived at a very special place, eh? Spiritually? Ecumenically? Grammatically? —Captain Jack Sparrow
Notes
Chapter 27 Liberty Square in the Shadow of Cinderella’s Castle: Political Philosophy in Disney’s Theme Parks
“I Just Can’t Wait to Be King”: celebrating Equality and Hierarchy in the Magic Kingdom
“I Can Show You the World”: epcot as a Multicultural Experience
“Look at This Stuff; Isn’t It Neat?”: disney and the Commodification of Political Values
Notes
Index

Acknowledgments : it takes people to make a dream reality -- Introduction : philosophy begins in wonder -- Unruly Ariel : not born but made a woman / Megan S. Lloyd -- True to your heart : honor and authenticity in Mulan / George A. Dunn -- Zen and the art of imagineering : Disney's escapism versus Buddhism's liberation / Steve Bein -- Hidden Mickeys and the hiddenness of God / Robert K. Garcia and Timothy Pickavance -- "Everyone's special dash" : tolerance and conformity in a world of incredible differences / Richard Davis -- Accommodating Dory, but disempowering Dopey? Dilemmas of disability from Snow White to Finding Dory / Kevin Mintz -- From Snow White to Moana : understanding Disney's feminist transformation / Edwardo Pérez -- "Always a team, always united" : Disney's philosophy of the family / Kody Cooper -- How to convince Sleeping Beauty she's not dreaming / Chad A. Mcintosh -- Knowing who you are : existence precedes essence in Moana / William J. Devlin -- Saving Mr. Banks : reclaiming our childhood, remembering who we are / Mark Linville and Shawn White -- Wall-e and Eve : Disney's intelligent machines / Timothy Brown -- Inside Disney's Inside out / Ellen Miller -- To be or not to be ... The lion king : existentialism in Disney and Shakespeare / Megan S. Lloyd -- True freedom in Toy story, or you are a child's plaything! / Armond Boudreaux -- "Our fate lives within us" : character and choice in Brave / Louis Colombo and Steve Jones -- Breaking the spell : Beauty and the beast and Plato's prisoner / Nathan and Leilani Mueller -- True love in Frozen / Jamey Heit -- Mencius spins The emperor's new groove / Dean A. Kowalski -- "Handed down from goof to goof" : what Goofy can teach us about becoming good / Robert M. Mentyka -- "Let slip the (Donald) Ducks of war!" : ethical considerations about Disney's war propaganda / Tuomas W. Manninen -- Wall-e, the environment, and our duties to future generations / J. Edward Hackett -- Is there any utopia in Zootopia? / Alexander Christian and Frauke Albersmeier -- How I learned to stop worrying and love Disney : Marx and Marcuse at Disney world / Elizabeth Butterfield -- Media, mind, and the Magic Kingdom / Read Schuchardt -- "We're all gonna die" : death and the cycle of life in Disney / Jessica Miller -- Liberty Square in the shadow of Cinderella's castle : political philosophy in Disney's theme parks / Timothy Dale and Joseph Foy

Explores topics including Disney's feminist transformation, dilemmas of disability, hierarchy and equality in Disney's theme parks, the art of imagineering, Disney's intelligent machines, tolerance and inclusion in a world of differences, alienation and consumption at Disney World, and the philosophy of wonder; Enriches favorite Disney and Pixar moments and characters--including Mulan, Moana, Goofy, Sleeping Beauty, Wall-E, and the cast of Toy Story--with new meaning and fun ahead of the release of Disney's highly-anticipated Frozen 2"-- Provided by publisher

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