Planet of the Apes and Philosophy (47 page)

Planet of the Apes
(TV series), “Escape from Ape City,”
87

Planet of the Apes (planet),
127
,
208

Planet of the Apes
(musical),
254

Plato,
88
,
145
,
146
; criticism of divine basis for ethics,
88–79
; on the soul,
139–140
,
142
;
Republic
,
126–142
,
145
,
149
,
184
,
210

Popper, Sir Karl,
194

power, ability to corrupt,
139–142

prejudice,
68
,
146
,
150
,
266
; arbitrary,
92
; human,
90
; liberal,
61–62
; linguistic,
16
,
17
,
26

primitive,
214
,
218
,
222
,
223

Project Nim
(movie),
92
,
258
; Singer's review of,
xii
,
27

propositions, logical versus empirical,
206

psychologist's dilemma,
48–49

Quine, Willard Van Orman,
23–24

race,
245–254
; ontology of,
247
,
251
,
252

Regan, Tom,
69
,
267

Relativity: special,
99–100
; general,
102
,
112

religion: and science,
43–44
; ape,
265–66
; as tool for political control,
125–26
,
129–131
,
134–35
,
140–41
; David Hume on,
52
,
160

revolution: ape,
231
; American,
ix
; scientific
ix
,
196
; sexual,
ix

Ring of Gyges,
145

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
(movie),
x
,
xii
,
3
,
68
,
81
,
87
,
231–243
,
255–262
; portrayal of drug companies in,
274
; sound editing in,
170
; morality in,
178
; visual effects in,
195
,
201

Robert, Jason Scott,
57
,
61–63

Rodman, Charles,
53
,
57
,
58
,
177

Rodman, Will,
53
,
56–58
,
63
,
77
,
187
,
273

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
148
,
179

Routley, Richard,
268–270
,
272
,
274

Ryder, Richard,
68

sacred scrolls,
85
,
131
,
140
,
146
,
265
,
282

San Bruno Primate Shelter,
3
,
13
,
30
,
87

Saussure, Ferdinand de,
219
,
236–37

Schaffner, Franklin,
265

Schoenberg, Arnold,
221

science,
131–34
; ideology of,
41–52
; limitations of,
5
; of race,
248
; philosophy of,
8–8
,
44–47
,
196
; and ethics,
46
,
48
,
52
; social,
157–58

Sepkoski, Jack,
162

Serling, Rod,
ix
,
144–152
,
204
; optimism of,
149
; pessimism of,
149

sex,
ix
,
137–38
; interracial,
250
; interspecies,
250

sexual orientation,
160
,
185

Shakespeare, William,
210
,
234
,
284

Shepard, Paul,
291

signified,
236–38

signifier,
236–241

Singer, Peter,
xii
,
68
,
69
,
83
;
Animal Liberation
,
68
,
81
,
297
; anti-speciesist views of
84
,
86
,
87
,
90
; views on personhood,
27

social contract,
145

Socrates,
194
,
198

speciesism,
68–82
,
84–94
,
266
,
271

Star Wars
(movie),
227

state of nature,
143

state of war,
145

Statue of Liberty,
148
,
152

Sterling, Bruce,
211

Stewart,
149

Stravinsky, Igor,
215
,
222
,
223
;
The Rite of Spring
,
222
,
223

Stringer, Chris,
290

Swift, Jonathan,
89–90

Tahrir Square,
x

Taylor, George,
67
,
83
,
222–25
,
276–77
; anger of,
276
; as anti-hero,
224
; as “Bright Eyes,”
17
; captivity of,
147
,
167–68
; destiny of,
121
; linguistic capacity,
3
,
16
,
27
,
42
,
132
,
257
; misanthropy of,
223
,
266
; relationship with Nova,
10
,
32
,
187
; relationship with Zira,
7
,
67
,
94
,
163
,
291
; speciesism of,
83
; trial of,
48–50
,
86–87
,
196

Terminator
,
287

time: arrow of,
102
; scale,
163
; travel,
99–109
,
111–121

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
147
,
148

Tower of Hanoi,
20

translation, indeterminacy of,
23–24

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
150

turtles, orangutan fear of,
11

Twain, Mark,
254

Twilight Zone
(TV show),
144
,
148
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
204
; “Time Enough at Last,”
148
,
149
,
151
; “Third from the Sun,”
148
; “Two,”
149
; “Probe, 8—Over and Out,”
149
; “The Rip van Winkle Caper,”
149
; “On Thursday We Leave for Home,”
149
; “The Old Man in the Cave,”
149
; “Eye of the Beholder,”
150
; “One More Pallbearer,”
151
; “The Shelter,”
148
; “People Are Alike All Over,”
144

tyranny of the majority,
147

United States,
57
,
84
,
141
,
216
; factory farming in,
80
; race in,
251
; involvement in Vietnam,
273

Ursus,
285

US Supreme Court,
250

Verger,
287

Verne, Jules,
212

war,
95
; in Vietnam,
214
,
225
,
269
,
273
; nuclear,
148–49
,
151
; of all against all,
145–47

Warhol, Andy,
199

Washington, George,
152

Washington, Martha,
152

Washoe,
266
,
271

wealth,
127
,
132
,
142

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
45
,
194
;

On Certainty
,
204–211
;

Philosophical Investigations
,
35

women, social role of,
136–37

World War I,
215

World War II,
155
,
184

Zack, Naomi,
253

Zaius, Dr.,
69–71
,
86–89
,
121
,
131
,
147
; and the cave,
149–150
,
155
,
210
; and the Sacred Scrolls,
146
; as ideologue,
43
; at Taylor's trial,
205
; clothing of,
69
,
147
; destruction of evidence,
131
,
147
,
155
,
211
; elitism of,
139
; in
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
,
267
,
268
,
276
; misanthropy of,
69–70
,
89

Zanuck, Darryl,
ix

Zira, Dr.,
131
,
134–35
,
137
,
140
,
147
,
150
,
224
,
284
,
291

Žižek, Slavoj,
240
,
241
,
242–43