Macbeth, Murder, and the Witches: Evil Spirits and Supernatural Coincidences
| Author: | Morris, Thomas | |
| Year: | 2022 | |
| Pages: | 448 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-0987-7 978-1-4955-0987-2 | |
| Price: | $199.95 + shipping | |
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Dr. Morris discusses the idea that our lives may be shaped by forces beyond our control and reckoning. He uses Shakespeare's Hamlet as a reference point to other philosophers and theologians on this complex issue.
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"We are in need of a paradigm shift. Our obtuseness is not science’s fault; it is philosophy’s. When we venture into the realm of the anecdotal we lose the ability to quantify, and for many philosophers quantification is a prerequisite to understanding something. Because human beings are capable of believing all sorts of nonsense, merely having a “ witness to confirm my speech” (V.i.17-18)--or millions of witnesses--is rightly thought not to be reliable. But still, we should not act as if we know that the supernatural is impossible."
From the Introduction
From the Introduction
Table of Contents
1. Some Reasons Why I Am Convinced of the Existence of the Supernatural
2. The Socratic Method Versus the Method of Long Speeches
3. Subjectively Appropriating an Objective Understanding
4. Team-Player Morality
5. Channels in the Soul
6. Shirk
7. Reasons for Serving
8. Listening with Distinct Judgements, Listening with Confused Judgements and Disregarding Words Altogether
9. Evaluating What One What Should Do
10. The Leap of Faith
11. Avoiding Remorse
12. Macbeth’s Decision to Murder Duncan
13. Trusting in God
14. Good Versus Evil
15. The Sublime
16. Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and Hecat All Use People as Tools
17. Passion Leading the Way
18. Distancing Oneself from the Horror of the Time
19. Kierkegaard’s Two Ways of Responding to the Abyss
20. Macbeth Makes a Priority of the Supernatural
21. Rosse and Lennox
22. The Race to Enverness
23. Denying the Possibility of Glaucon’s Master of Injustice
24. SpiritM
25. Adeimantus’ Types of People
26. True Manliness
27. Distraction and Ekaggata
28. Two Methods of Escaping Dukkha
29. Banquo, Macduff and Malcolm All Fail to Grab Their Cubic Centimeters of Opportunity
30. Macduff was Preoccupied With the Cause of Scotland when He Went to England
31. Macbeth in Denial
Notes
2. The Socratic Method Versus the Method of Long Speeches
3. Subjectively Appropriating an Objective Understanding
4. Team-Player Morality
5. Channels in the Soul
6. Shirk
7. Reasons for Serving
8. Listening with Distinct Judgements, Listening with Confused Judgements and Disregarding Words Altogether
9. Evaluating What One What Should Do
10. The Leap of Faith
11. Avoiding Remorse
12. Macbeth’s Decision to Murder Duncan
13. Trusting in God
14. Good Versus Evil
15. The Sublime
16. Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and Hecat All Use People as Tools
17. Passion Leading the Way
18. Distancing Oneself from the Horror of the Time
19. Kierkegaard’s Two Ways of Responding to the Abyss
20. Macbeth Makes a Priority of the Supernatural
21. Rosse and Lennox
22. The Race to Enverness
23. Denying the Possibility of Glaucon’s Master of Injustice
24. SpiritM
25. Adeimantus’ Types of People
26. True Manliness
27. Distraction and Ekaggata
28. Two Methods of Escaping Dukkha
29. Banquo, Macduff and Malcolm All Fail to Grab Their Cubic Centimeters of Opportunity
30. Macduff was Preoccupied With the Cause of Scotland when He Went to England
31. Macbeth in Denial
Notes