Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers, The (29 page)

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pragmatic maxim and

 

unreciprocated

 

Love (Mistress)

 

Love-Himself

 

lying

 

secrets and

 

MACH-1

 

Madame Masque

 

Magneto

 

mantle theory

 

Marvel, Ms..
See also
Danvers, Carol

 

Mar-Vell.
See also
Captain Marvel

 

Mason, Louise “Weezie,”

 

Mason, Mark

 

Masque, Madame

 

Masters of Evil

 

Maximoff, Django

 

Maximoff, Marya

 

Maximoff, Pietro.
See
Quicksilver

 

Maximoff, Wanda.
See
Scarlet Witch

 

McCloskey, Deirdre

 

Mephisto

 

metaphysics

 

identity and

 

justice and

 

self-awareness and “metafiction,”

 

MGH (Mutant Growth Hormone)

 

Mighty Avengers

 

Milgram, Stanley

 

Mockingbird (Bobbie Morse)

 

Modok

 

Moonstone (Karla Sofen)

 

moral exemplarism

 

moral goodness

 

Morse, Bobbie (Mockingbird)

 

Namor the Submariner

 

Narcissus

 

need-love

 

Nefaria, Count Luchino

 

Nefaria, Giulietta (Madame Masque)

 

negative duties

 

Nelson, William

 

Nicomachean Ethics
(Aristotle)

 

Niebuhr, Reinhold

 

Noh-Varr

 

numerical identity

 

Odin

 

O’Grady, Eric (Ant-Man)

 

Omni-Wave Projector

 

Onslaught

 

ontology

 

definitions

 

as equal opportunity

 

God and gods

 

moral goodness and

 

Order, Master

 

Osborn, Norman

 

change and

 

ethics and

 

justice and

 

political community and

 

power and

 

rehabilitation and

 

values and

 

paradox of forgiveness

 

Parker, Peter.
See also
Spider-Man

 

Patriot (Eli Bradley)

 

Peirce, Charles S.

 

philia,

 

Phobos

 

Plato

 

political community

 

arête
and

 

defined

 

eudaimonia
and

 

philia
and

 

polis,
defined

 

society and

 

zoon politikon,

 

Polus

 

Popeye

 

positive duties

 

power

 

authenticity and

 

responsibility and

 

sophistry and

 

Power Man.
See
Cage, Luke

 

pragmatic maxim, love and

 

predicament of irreversibility

 

Punisher

 

Pym, Henry “Hank”

 

change and

 

character and

 

ethics and

 

forgiveness and

 

identity and

 

political community and

 

rehabilitation and

 

Taoism and

 

values and

 

Quicksilver

 

character and

 

forgiveness and

 

identity and

 

rehabilitation and

 

Taoism and

 

time travel and

 

values and

 

Ragnarok

 

Ramonda

 

Red Skull

 

rehabilitation

 

character and

 

defined

 

punishment and

 

as second chance

 

vice and

 

virtue and

 

relativity, theory of

 

Republic
(Plato)

 

“retcon,”

 

Reynolds, Lindy

 

Reynolds, Robert.
See also
Sentry

 

Reynolds, Richard

 

Rhodes, James

 

Richards, Reed (Mr. Fantastic)

 

Richards, Sue (Invisible Woman)

 

Ringmaster

 

ring of Gyges

 

Rogers, Steve.
See also
Captain America

 

Romanova, Natasha.
See also
Black Widow

 

Ronan the Accuser

 

Ronin.
See also
Barton, Clint

 

Sagan, Carl

 

Scarlet Witch

 

character and

 

forgiveness and

 

love and

 

rehabilitation and

 

Taoism and

 

time travel and

 

values and

 

Secret Avengers

 

secrets

 

lying and

 

Segar, E. C.

 

self-awareness

 

identity and

 

metaphysics and “metafiction,”

 

time and distance perspective

 

Sentry

 

Serpent

 

She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters)

 

S.H.I.E.L.D.

 

Shuri (Black Panther)

 

Siege of Asgard

 

Sin

 

Singer, Peter

 

Skaar

 

Skrulls

 

Slott, Dan

 

Socrates

 

Sofen, Karla (Moonstone)

 

Songbird

 

sophistry

 

soul, love and

 

Space Phantom

 

speciesism

 

Speedball

 

Spider-Man.
See also
Parker, Peter

 

Spider-Woman

 

Squadron Supreme

 

Squirrel Girl

 

Stark, Tony

 

change and

 

character and

 

ethics

 

forgiveness and

 

identity and

 

justice and

 

political community and

 

See also
Iron Man

 

Stature (Cassie Lang)

 

status quo

 

Stilt-Man

 

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology
(Reynolds)

 

Superhuman Registration Act

 

supreme emergency (Walzer)

 

Supreme Intelligence

 

Taoism

 

Chuang Tzu on

 

heroism and

 

humility and

 

Lao Tzu on

 

Tao Te Ching
(Lao Tzu)

 

wei wu wei,

 

T’Chaka (Black Panther)

 

T’Challa (Black Panther)

 

Thanos

 

Thimble Theatre,

 

third-party forgiveness

 

Thor

 

change and

 

ethics and

 

love and

 

ontology and

 

political community and

 

Taoism and

 

Thrasymachus

 

Thunderbolts

 

Tigra

 

Timely Comics

 

time travel

 

closed loops

 

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