Ender's Game and Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction What Is Ender's Game? -- Notes -- Part One Third: The Making of an Impossible Child -- Chapter 1 "The Teachers Got Me Into This": Educational Skirmishes … with a Pinch of Freedom -- Liberal Education Is Paideia's Game -- Vocational Prep: A Heaping Tablespoon, or the Main Dish? -- Is Battle School Just Trade School? -- Should Critical Inquiry Be Socratic or Social? -- Critical Inquirer for the Dead -- Educational Skirmishes -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Illusions of Freedom, Tragedies of Fate: The Moral Development of Ender Wiggin -- Putting a Name to Evil -- Evil and Its Refrain -- Graff's Sacrifice -- The Moral Development of Ender Wiggin -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Xenocide's Paradox: The Virtue of Being Ender -- "A Little Private Moral Dilemma" -- "The Name of Ender is One to Conjure With" -- Plato or Aristotle? -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Teaching to the Test: Constructing the Identity of a Space Commander -- "They're Gonna Make You Do Time Out in the Belt …" -- "Leader's Aren't Born, They Are Made" -- Battle School Panopticon -- Testing 1, 2, 3 … -- "I'm Sure You Can Get Your Training at Someone Else's Expense" -- Every Action Has an Equal and Opposite Reaction -- Notes -- Part Two Game: Cooperation or Confrontation? -- Chapter 5 The Enemy's Gate Is Down: Perspective, Empathy, and Game Theory -- Understanding Your "Enemy" -- Understanding, Empathy, and Love -- Loving Your Enemy -- Back to the Game -- The Enemy's Gate -- Notes -- Chapter 6 War Games as Child's Play -- Paradox of the Heart and the Head -- War Games -- The Problem of Dirty Hands -- Death Games and Moral Decision-Making -- Moral Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fainter -- Ender's a Willing Pawn -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Forming the Formless: Sunzi and the Military Logic of Ender Wiggin -- "Of Course We Tricked You Into It".

"The Enemy Outnumbered Him a Thousand to One" -- Mazes and Formlessness -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Do Good Games Make Good People? -- So What Is a Game, Anyway? -- Games Without Goals? -- This Game Is Deadly Serious -- Do Good Games Make Good People? -- Notes -- Part Three Hive-Queen: All Together Now -- Chapter 9 Bugger All!: The Clash of Cultures in Ender's Game -- Two Sides of the Same Coin, but Which Side Is Which? -- When One Face Is Up, the Other Face Is Down -- Two Faces of the Same Coin, and I Am the Metal in Between -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Why Ender Can't Go Home: Philotic Connections and Moral Responsibility -- Communicating Across the Galaxy -- That Blasted Fantasy Game -- Ender's Quest for a New Home -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Of Gods and Buggers: Friendship in Ender's Game -- Ender, the Superman -- Happiness or Power? -- Ender, the Political Animal -- "I the Sweetest Friend You Got" -- Notes -- Part Four War: Kill or Be Killed -- Chapter 12 "I Destroy Them": Ender, Good Intentions, and Moral Responsibility -- "He Didn't Just Beat Him. He Beat Him Deep" -- "I Didn't Want to Hurt Him!" -- "All His Crimes Weighed Heavy on Him" -- "Nevertheless, It's Still You Doing Those Things"27 -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Ender's Beginning and the Just War -- "The More You Obey, the More Power They Have Over You" -- "I Don't Have Murder in My Heart" -- The Moral Equivalent of War -- A Waste of Brief Mortality -- "At Least You Have Some Survival Instinct Left" -- Notes -- Chapter 14 "You Had to Be a Weapon, Ender … We Aimed You": Moral Responsibility in Ender's Game -- Involuntary Bugger-Slaughter -- Why It's Not Okay to Let Rich Kids Drown -- "You Tricked Me Into It" -- "The Real Education Was the Game" -- "I'll Tell Your Story to My People, So That Perhaps in Time They Can Forgive You …" -- Notes.

Chapter 15 The Unspoken Rules of Manly Warfare: Just War Theory in Ender's Game -- Peace Is the End of War -- The Rules of the Game -- Playing by the Rules -- The Justice of Ender's Games -- Ender's Last Game: The Justice of the Third Invasion -- Notes -- Part Five Hegemon: The Terrible Things Are Only About to Begin -- Chapter 16 Locke and Demosthenes: Virtually Dominating the World -- A Child's Rise to Power -- "Every Citizen Started Equal, on the Nets" -- "[He] Knew How to Exploit Fear in His Writing" -- New Friend Request from Hannah Arendt -- "We'll Be Too Entrenched to Suffer Much Loss" -- The Heart of the Matter -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Ender's Dilemma: Realism, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Power -- Survival of the Fittest -- Why Can't We Be Friends? -- Ender's Dilemma -- The Power to Persuade -- Fighting for the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 18 People Are Tools -- Chosen to Save Humanity -- The Tragedy of Ender's Game -- The Court-Martial of Colonel Hyrum Graff -- What Is Ender's Game? -- Lessons from Ender's Game -- Notes -- Convening Authorities of the Court Martial of Colonel Hyrum Graff -- The Ansible Index.