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Revenge of the Sith

Ironically Bionic
At the end of Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine preserves Anakin Skywalker’s life, after he was severely maimed and burned on Mustafar, by having medical…
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Robert Brown
Mustafar and Exegol
The third film of the prequel trilogy and the third film of the sequel trilogy feature the two most hellish planets in the Skywalker Saga.
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Robert Brown
Darth Sidious
In The Phantom Menace, the future Emperor Palpatine is first introduced as his Sith alter ego: Darth Sidious.
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Timothy Lawrence
The Lars Homestead
The Lars homestead on the planet Tatooine appears in four of the nine films of the Skywalker Saga.
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Robert Brown
Redeeming Attachments
Across the nine-film Skywalker Saga, there is a movement away from seeing attachment only as a cause for destructive fears and toward seeing attachment…
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Robert Brown
Confronting Fear
The nine-film Skywalker Saga begins, reaches its central turning point, and ends when Jedi masters choose to train new apprentices in spite of fear …
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Robert Brown
Kamino
The name “Kamino” evokes the Spanish “camino,” which means “the way.” Aside from signifying that Kamino is a significant “waypoint” on Obi-Wan Kenobi’s…
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Samuel Morales
Doing Their Jobs
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates and his friends conclude that justice in the city and justice in the soul both require that each part of the city or soul…
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Robert Brown
Peace Between Reason and the Passions
In the Pensées, the French mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and physicist Blaise Pascal writes about how human beings continually experience an…
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Timothy Lawrence
Separating the Separatists
In Revenge of the Sith, the Separatists have three main leaders, each one corresponding to a part of the tripartite soul as it is described in Plato’s…
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Robert Brown
The Ship of State
In Republic, Plato uses the analogy of a disorderly ship, on which the sailors vie to be captain without knowing anything about sailing, to illustrate…
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Robert Brown
Droids That Blind
During the space battle over Coruscant that opens Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi starfighter is attacked by enemy buzz droids.
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Timothy Lawrence
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