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“What she seems to fear most is not that Rue will be killed by some other tribute, but rather that she and Rue will face each other as the last two survivors in the Games, forcing Katniss to sacrifice her erstwhile ally for the sake of a promise to her sister. As horrible as it sounds, Rue’s death at the hands of Marvel was good moral luck for Katniss.”

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Book:The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

Source: The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason

“[Katniss'] authenticity got the best of her”

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Author:Dereck Coatney

“this care perspective has historically been unrecognized or devalued by male philosophers and psychologists because it was linked to women’s care-based responsibilities.”

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Author:Lindsey Issow Averill

“Gilligan pointed out that because the care perspective is more typical of women, the belief of many philosophers and psychologists that the only valid approach to moral reasoning is the justice perspective often allowed them to question or undermine women’s moral reasoning ability.”

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Author:Lindsey Issow Averill

“for the Capitol as a whole, being a 'real human being' lies precisely in freedom from the constraints of identity”

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Author:Brian McDonald

“for Capitol residents, being a real person means a kind of birdlike flight, freed from any kind of gravity - aesthetic, ethical, or relational - an effortless flapping of weightless wings on the way forward toward the always receding and ever more lurid 'final word in entertainment'.”

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Author:Brian McDonald

“she doesn’t feel comfortable abandoning the pretense of their love affair, even in private.”

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Author:Jennifer Culver

“hunger plays a crucial role in the lives of the Capitol citizens: they organize their lives around satisfying their complex desires just as surely as Katniss and Gale Hawthorne have organized their lives around satisfying their more basic hungers and keeping their families from starvation.”

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Author:Christina Van Dyke

“In sharp contrast with Katniss, who’s constantly thinking about how her actions will impact others - her family and her community - and who’s determined to protect her sister and her mother, the prep team’s docile self-focus means that the stylists experience even the televised horrors of the Hunger Games in personal terms: '"I was still in bed!" "I had just had my eyebrows dyed!" "I swear I nearly fainted!" Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena'.”

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Author:Christina Van Dyke

“In the second book of his great autobiographical word, Confessions, Augustine fretted at length over a childish act of vandalism that he committed long ago with some teenage friends; he was now struggling to understand the motive behind an action that seemed to serve no purpose whatsoever. He concluded that he broke the law for no other reason than the thrill of breaking it, experiencing a rush he calls a 'deceptive sense of omnipotence.' By this phrase he meant that such gratuitous lawbreaking provides the illusion of being as free from the restraints of the moral law as is God, who must be imagined as both creating the moral law and existing outside it. But Augustine went on to say that this attempt to be a god is really only a 'perverse and vicious imitation' of the real deity, not only because it’s so obviously an illusion but also because the very attempt to be like God tacitly concedes that God is a superior model to be imitated.”

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Author:Brian McDonald

“The state of nature provides a standard for judging civil society, but not a practical and generally applicable prescription for reform.”

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Author:Roger Masters

“Foucault’s description of an eighteenth-century soldier is also an accurate portrait of the typical citizen of District 13. The District 13 citizen is 'something that can be made; out of a formless clay, an inapt body, the machine required can be constructed; posture is gradually corrected; a calculated constraint runs slowly through each part of the body, mastering it, making it pliable, ready at all times, turning silently into the automatism of habit.' If you enact this process on the scale of a whole society, you get a populace that literally embodies obedience.”

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Author:Christina Van Dyke

“All of this self-centered preoccupation with their bodies actually reinforces the power of the Capitol over its citizens - and the rest of Panem.”

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Author:Christina Van Dyke

“In the Capitol, the citizens unthinkingly participate in the political system largely because they’re distracted; their attention is diverted from politics onto self-centered desires. In District 13, the citizens unthinkingly participate in the political system because of deeply ingrained habits formed through their continual obedience to the myriad rules and regulations imposed by President Coin. The effects of this constant compliance are gradual, cumulative, and dramatic.”

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Author:Christina Van Dyke