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Action Philosophers #2 (2005), 11 Amazing Spider-Man, #46 (2002), 58 actions Amazing Spider-Man, #53 (2003), 58 consequences of, 202 Amazing Spider-Man, #121 (1973), 160 identity and, 128 Amazing Spider-Man, #144 (May moral permissibility of, 202–3, 1975), 160 208–11 Amazing Spider-Man, #148, 160 reasoning about, 251 Amazing Spider-Man, #149 (1975), standards for, 252–54 160, 167 Adam (in Bible), 64–65 Amazing Spider-Man, #151, 161 Adams, Marilyn McCord, 97 Amazing Spider-Man, #402 (1995), 16 After Virtue (Alasdair MacIntyre), 250, Amazing Spider-Man, #479 (2002), 251, 254 92, 96 agape (sacrifi cial love), 189–91, Amazing Spider-Man, #500 (2003), 197, 198 61–62 agent regret, 94, 96, 98 Amazing Spider-Man, #538 (February alien 2007), 47 destruction of, 210–11 Amazing Spider-Man, #545, 178 identity and, 119–21, 127, 128 Amazing Spider-Man, vol. 1, Annual #2 obligations to wrongdoers and, 207, (1987), 178 210–11 Amazing Spider-Man, vol. 2, #33 Peter’s treatment of, 201, 204–7 (2001), 58 See also Venom () Amazing Spider-Man, vol. 2, #49 Allen, Liz, 192–94COPYRIGHTED(2002), MATERIAL 62 alms-giving, 30 Andre, Judith, 95 altruism, 10–11 angels, Christian view of, 64 Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962), 86, Anselm of Canterbury, 24–26 87, 243 Aquinas, Thomas Amazing Fantasy #42 (1966), 86, 177 on eros, 139 Amazing Spider-Man, #7 (1963), 217 on the good life, 16–19 Amazing Spider-Man, #23 (1965), 217 on virtue, 135, 136

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Aristotle kiss from Spider-Man, 112, 113 on concept of virtue, 18 Peter’s fellowship with, 198 on curing humans, 33 Black costume (Spider-Man). See alien fantasy “loves” and, 192 symbiote on joking, 227 blame on loves, 189–90, 196–98 assessing, 79 proportionality principle of, 190, culpability and, 91–99 191 death of and, 86–89, on reasoning about actions, 251 91–98 on stories, 248 in deaths of loved ones, 88 Ark of the Covenant, 58 moral luck and, 88–96 Armored , 47 regret and, 93–96 Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), 11 responsibility vs., 94 atonement, 22–35 bodily knowledge, 133–34 infi nite debt and, 23–27 bodily transformation, 131–40 responsibility and, 27–29 changes in the world and, 133 worth of every other and, 29–33 confl icting effects of, 140 for wrongdoing, 207 doing good and, 137–39 attachment, Epictetus’ view of, 14 phenomenological view of, 132–34 attraction (storge), 191 virtue ethics and, 134–37 Augustine of Hippo, 30 boredom, Frankl’s view of, 15 Avengers, 217–18. See also specifi c Bostrom, Nick, 149 characters BPS (biopsychosocial) self, 126–28 “Brand New Day,” 48, 232 Bad Samaritanism, 77–80 Brant, Betty, 25 Basil, St., 190 Brock, Eddie, 121, 124, 127–29, Batman (Bruce Wayne), 7, 23, 86 210–11. See also Venom , 226 Buckley, F. H., 222–24 beliefs the Buddha, 122 about clones, 166–71 false, 201–2 Ben, Uncle. See Parker, Ben (Uncle) character of, 235, 236, 239 Bendis, Brian Michael, 237 Peter’s fellowship with, 198 benefi cence, 212 right vs. good choice and, 38, 39, Bergson, Henri, 222 43, 45 Berkeley, George, 110–11 Spidey’s jokes and, 217–18, 226 Big Question. See the good life caring for others, Aquinas’ view of, 17 bio-conservatives, 146 categorical imperative, 202, 211–13 bioethics causing harm, 76–80 human cloning, 159–73 character transhumanism, 145–57 bodily transformations and, 136 biopsychosocial (BPS) self, 126–28 consistency of, 234–36, 240–41 Bioshock, 11 developed in movie trilogy, 245 Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) judging, 239 character of, 240 non-chosen factors in, 245–46 crimes of, 73 of normal people, 232–34

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