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Foolish Personas
In The Empire Strikes Back and The Acolyte, a master adopts a foolish persona to reveal the true character of a prospective pupil.
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Timothy Lawrence
Chewbacca
In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker meet Chewbacca, the Wookiee copilot of the Millennium Falcon, in the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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Timothy Lawrence
Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi
In each act of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker is on a different planet, and on each planet, he talks with or calls out to the ghost of his…
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Robert Brown
The Jedi and Sith Temples
In the first and last episodes of the Skywalker Saga, the audience is introduced to the temples of the Jedi and the Sith.
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Robert Brown
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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
Jabba the Hutt: An Oligarchic Soul
In Republic, Plato describes five types of soul.
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Robert Brown
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