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The characters Rick, Shane, The Governor, and Negan depict examples of leadership guided by ethical principles and the justifications each uses for their individual leadership styles - the benevolent autocracy of Rick Grimes, the seeming utopia of The Governor, the violent dictatorship of Negan…Īs I said, Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks. Episodes like season 4’s “The Grove” and season 2’s “Judge, Jury, Executioner” demonstrate the ethical dilemma - do we kill one to save many –– as well as any other Trolley Problem scenerio. You had to put on a yellow miner helmet with a little flashlight and mine every that-didn’t-happen-in-the-comic-book moment (like that whole fiasco of Glenn’s under-the-dumpster plot twist, aka the moment everybody yelled “you’ve got to be kidding me!!!”) to find the philosophical subtext. If you wanted to get down and philosophical while watching The Walking Dead, you had to dig for it.
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The philosophy wasn’t served up on a platter like an episode of Star Trek or a philosophy-themed series like The Good Place. The episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” isn’t merely philosophical - it also features one of tv’s first interracial kiss.Īnd THAT’S the reason why I used to like The Walking Dead. Classic Star Trek episodes “The City On the Edge Of Forever”, “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”, “The Measure of a Man”, “Yesterday’s Enterprise”, and “Thine Own Self” are extra philosophical.Īnd who can forget this philosophical as hell episode?
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The thing is, unlike The Walking Dead, Gene Roddenberty created Star Trek with philosophical subtext in mind.
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Moral consistency (or, if I’m writing about Rick Grimes, moral inconsistency)Īnd– although I got my problems with Negan, I can’t think of another tv series that has inspired me philosophically.I’ve used The Walking Dead to write about philosophical topics including (but not limited to): In the whatever-many years I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve written posts entirely about or have mentioned The Walking Dead in no fewer than 39 posts. Wouldn’t you rather just watch tv instead?įUN WITH PHILOSOPHY: if, by watching a tv show, we can not only learn philosophical ideas easier, but also expose a greater number of people to philosophy, we are OBLIGATED to watch the tv show! Sure, you can spend your summer boning up on Kant’s categorical imperative or slogging through Hegel (that nobody wants to read or actually reads), but wouldn’t you rather not do that if you don’t have to do it? Literally everywhere.Ī great thing about studying philosophical stuff, believe it or not, is discovering philosophy in stuff that isn’t explicitly philosophical. Listen: if kinda sorta doing philosophy for awhile has taught me anything, it’s taught me that philosophical stuff is everywhere. RICK GRIMES IS THINKING… PROBABLY BAD DECISIONS THAT WILL GET PEOPLE KILLED, BUT HE’S THINKING