RT Article
T1 Christopher Nolan’s Joker as a Consistent Naturalist (And That’s Still a Bad Thing)
JF Religions
VO 14
IS 12
A1 Barkman, Adam 1979-
A1 Korvemaker, Aaron
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1874810370
AB In this article, we discuss C. S. Lewis’s description, and critique, of metaphysical naturalism, and apply this to our reading of the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. We argue that Nolan’s Joker is the most ethically consistent type of naturalist, and that this makes his ethical position at once more praiseworthy than that of numerous naturalistic moral thinkers, such as Sam Harris, insofar as it is consistent, and yet blameworthy in that other naturalistic ethicists, inconsistent though they may be, at least, reasonably, assume a kind of objective morality via implicit supernaturalist assumptions about “right” and “wrong”.
K1 Elizabeth Anderson
K1 Supernaturalism
K1 Ethics
K1 Naturalism
K1 Batman
K1 Sam Harris
K1 The Dark Knight
K1 Christopher Nolan
K1 Joker
K1 Miracles
K1 C. S. Lewis
DO 10.3390/rel14121535