Richard Greene,Rachel Robison-Greene

Peanuts and Philosophy

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In Peanuts and Philosophy, twenty philosophers, from a diverse range of perspectives, look at different aspects of the Peanuts canon. How can the thoughts of children, who have yet to become grown-up, help us to become more grown up ourselves? Do we get good results from believing in something like the Great Pumpkin, even though we’re disappointed every time? What can Linus’s reactions to the leukemia of his friend Janice tell us about the stages of grief? Why don’t we settle what’s right and what’s wrong by the simple method of asking Lucy? Is true happiness attainable without a warm puppy? Do some people’s kites have a natural affinity for trees? Is Sally an anarchist, a nihilist, or just a contrarian? Does Linus’s reliance on his blanket help him or hurt him? Is Charlie Brown’s philosophy of life pathetic or inspirational?Other topics include: how the way children think carries general lessons about transcending our limitations; the Utopian quest as illustrated by Charlie’s devotion to the Little Red-Haired Girl; Snoopy’s Red Baron and history as selective memory; the Head Beagle as Big Brother. And, as we would expect, Lucy’s repeated cruel removal of Charlie's football has several philosophical applications.
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263 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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  • Estephanyhas quoted3 years ago
    Charlie suffers from not being able to be what he feels a need to be—a good baseball manager—and this affliction is uniquely his own. But if he feels he’s alone and “not like himself,” that also means he hasn’t fully lost the underlying “he”—the one who’s really in there, feeling this.
  • Estephanyhas quoted3 years ago
    This is how Heidegger turns Descartes’ “thinking thing” (the “I” of “I think, therefore I am”) into the existential Dasein, or “Being-there”; if I’m raising the question of what it means to be, then there must be a type of being for whom its own way of be-ing is an issue. No matter how deeply I sink into despair, there’s still an inner place where it’s happening, so all is not lost.
  • Estephanyhas quoted3 years ago
    Life usually has ups and downs, so we get at least some satisfaction. But for Charlie, the downs are so interminable that hope makes no sense;

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