Mark D. White

Writer, editor, teacher

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I’m a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where I teach courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and the author/editor/co-editor of several books.

Green Lantern and Philosophy: No Evil Shall Escape This Book

GL John Wiley & Sons, 2011 (co-edited with Jane Dryden)

PART ONE WILL AND EMOTION: THE PHILOSOPHICAL SPECTRUM

  • 1 The Blackest Night for Aristotle’s Account of Emotions (Jason Southworth)
  • 2 Flexing the Mental Muscle: Green Lanterns and the Nature of Willpower (Mark D. White)
  • 3 Women Are from Zamaron, Men Are from Oa (Sarah K. Donovan and Nicholas P. Richardson)

PART TWO  EMERALD ETHICS: IT’S NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE

  • 4 Will They Let Just Anybody Join?: Testing for Moral Judgment in the Green Lantern Corps (Andrew Terjesen)
  • 5 The Greatest Green Lantern: Aesthetic Admiration and the Praiseworthy Hero (Jane Dryden)
  • 6 There Should Be No Forgiveness for Hal Jordan (Nicolas Michaud)
  • 7 Morality, Atonement, and Guilt: Hal Jordan’s Shifting Motivations (Joseph J. Darowski)

PART THREE  I’M WITH GREEN LANTERN: FRIENDS AND RELATIONSHIPS

  • 8 Hard-Traveling Ethics: Moral Rationalism Versus Moral Sentimentalism (Andrew Terjesen)
  • 9 “I Despise Messiness”: The Plato-Aristotle Debate in the Troubled Friendship of Green Lantern and Green Arrow (Brett Chandler Patterson)
  • 10 Can’t Live with ’Em, Can’t Live without ’Em: Green Lantern, Relationships, and Autonomy (Jane Dryden)

PART FOUR  WITH THIS RING, I THEE SWEAR: POWER, DUTY, AND LAW

  • 11 The Oaths of Soranik Natu: Can a Doctor Be a Green Lantern? (Ruth Tallman and Jason Southworth)
  • 12 Crying for Justice: Retributivism for Those Who Worship Evil’s Might (Mark D. White)
  • 13 Hate Crimes as Terrorism in Brother’s Keeper (Ron Novy)
  • 14 The Ring of Gyges, the Ring of the Green Lantern, and the Temptation of Power (Adam Barkman)

PART FIVE  DON’T TELL KRONA: METAPHYSICS, MIND, AND TIME

  • 15 All for One and One for All: Mogo, the Collective, and Biological Unity (Leonard Finkelman)
  • 16 Green Mind: The Book of Oa, the Lantern Corps, and Peirce’s Theory of Communal Mind (Paul R. Jaissle)
  • 17 Shedding an Emerald Light on Destiny: The Problems with Time Travel (Amy Kind)

PART SIX  CAN GREEN LANTERN MAKE A BOXING GLOVE HE CAN’T LIFT? POWERS AND LIMITATIONS

  • 18 Another Boxing Glove?: Green Lantern and the Limits of Imagination (Daniel P. Malloy)
  • 19 “Beware My Power”: Leibniz and Green Lantern on God, Omnipotence, and Evil (Carsten Fogh Nielsen)
  • 20 Magic and Science in the Green Lantern Mythos: Clarke’s Law, the Starheart, and Emotional Energy (Andrew Zimmerman Jones)

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