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1  Cover

2  Series Page

3  Title Page

4  Copyright Page

5  Dedication Page

6  Contributors: Expanded Rocinante Crew List

7  Acknowledgements

8  Foreword

9  Introduction

10  First Orbit: FROM EARTH TO THE STARS 1 The Infinite and the Sublime in The Expanse Chiaroscuro A New, Infinite (And Wonderful?) Universe The Abyss Looks Back (Nietzsche Warned You …) Is It Large Out Here? Or Is It Me? Freedom and the Sublime in The Expanse Dynamically Sublime Howl at the Moon If You Want To 2 Interplanetary Expansion and the Deep Future Does Humanity Have a Future? The Value of Humanity Life and Biodiversity Hedging Our Bets Against Extinction Risk Future Humans What Really Matters 3 Humanity’s Dilemma before Abaddon’s Gate Colonizing the System Colonizing at the Speed of Light Unimaginable Opportunities Actual Threats to Our Existence 4 Hate Expectations The Male is By Nature More Expert at Leading and Other Complete Drivel: Aristotle Tries to Find his Ass With Two Hands and a Fakós Me and My Husband and My Byronic Hero are Taking Our Giant Helmet and Going Home Paint Me Like One of Your Manic Pixie Dream Girls Who’s the Nasty One Now? Fear Mongering and the Fragile Male Ego Conclusion: Whatever I Goddamn Like

11  Second Orbit: IS IT THE PROTOMOLECULE, OR JUST HUMAN NATURE? 5 The Banality of Evil How Can Evil Be Banal? A Moral Monster? Making Sense of Fanaticism Lack of Imagination Anyone Can Do It! (Or Can They?) Should Mao Be Pardoned? 6 Amos Meets Nietzsche People of Three Kinds “Good and Bad” or “Good and Evil” Ressentiment Will to Power Amos Is No Superman 7 Is Amos Evil? “I am that guy” What Happened to Amos? Is Amos Really “That” Guy? The Upsides of Amos 8 Moral Obligation in an Anarchic World It’s Anarchy How Philosophy Helps Us Discover Our Values When to Fight? How to Fight? What Promotes Moral Behavior? 9 Terrorism and the Churn Killing and Making Free People Like Us A Crossroads in Human History

12  Third Orbit: REMEMBER THE CANT! 10 The Inners Must Die Colonization The Wretched of the Belt The Limits of Peace A Cleansing Violence A More Human Future 11 Being Beltalowda Patriotism and Nationalism According to Orwell Drummer the Patriot, Marco the Nationalist Offensive Versus Defensive Attitudes Obsession Indifference to Reality Against Love of Nation 12 Anarchy in the OPA “Every Breath You Take” “Seek and Destroy” “I Fought the Law” More Inhuman than Human “Sunday, Bloody vunday” “Where Eagles Dare” “3’s and 7’s” “Personal Jesus” “I Want to Conquer the World” 13 “Can’t We Try Something Else?” Is James Holden a Hero? Filling Our Ears with Wax and Our Brains with Electromagnetic Waves No Nature, No Nurture Of Mother Born Tilting at Windmills

13  Fourth Orbit: THEY STILL DREAM 14 “We had a garden and we paved it” The Expanse and the Philosophy of the Anthropocene The Anthropocene The Cascade The Anthropocentrism of the Anthropocene The Issue with Wanting to “Turn a lifeless rock into a garden” “We’re all in this together.” “That is a story” “Earthers, Martians—they see us as their possessions, animals” “Doing nothing is just as bad as doing the wrong thing” 15 We Can Be Gods “I wonder what that rain tastes like?” “If we master it, we can apply it” Detecting Stealth Ships “… hardly a rounding error” “What happens to us now?” 16 Gunnery Sergeant Draper and the Martian Congressional Republic’s Vision for Mars Revolutionary Revelations Nothing New in Orbit of the Sun Philosophy on the Martian Frontier It’s Life in the Solar System, Jim, But Not as We Know It

14  Fifth Orbit: TILTING AT WINDMILLS 17 How to Be a Hero Escaping the Monster of Ganymede Waddling Between Making and Doing Politics Be Mindful Not to Trip Over Your Own Foot Somewhere Beyond Inaros and Holden The Burden of the End of the World 18 The Lives of Naomi Nagata Intersectionality and Betrayal Belter Lives Matter? Knuckles and the Augustín Gamarra 19 Risky Tradeoffs in The Expanse Epistemic Value vs. Moral Value: Evil Scientists Aesthetic Value vs. Moral Value: Mad Scientists, Awestruck Reverends Epistemic Value vs. Prudential Value: Intrepid Scientists Conflicts Between Values Risky Tradeoffs

15  Sixth Orbit: RIDING THE ROCI 20 The Long Dark Night of The Hat Hemlock and Haberdashery: Plato and Socrates Fervor and Fedoras: Aristotle Spiritual Guts: Aquinas The Grudge Match: Philosophy vs. The Protomolecule The Investigator Must, Therefore, Relinquish the Hat 21 Between Worlds Self and World Worlds and World Travel Between Worlds and Borderlands One and Multitudes 22 Language Games in The Expanse Use–Mention Distinction Wittgenstein The Picture Book Model of Language The Language Game Model of Language The Language Games the Solar System Plays On the Other Side of the Ring: A Difficult Consequence

16  Appendix: The Expanse Episodes List Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5

17  Index

18  End User License Agreement