.1 The importance of political and philosophical ideas to the story
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A few times, I tried to give things associated with the Republic names with great significance which would serve as constant reminders of the potential for corruption. When the story was still a Harry Potter fan-fiction, the capital of the Republic was on an island which the wizards raised from the ocean. I stole the name of the island directly from Tolkien by calling it Numenor. I created a map which can be seen below. I blurred out the names of cities because they were all ridiculous and I do not want to feel the need to explain them. When it could no longer be on an island created by wizards, the seat of the Republic would be a capital city named Armenelos, which is the name of the capital of Tolkien’s Numenor. The story of Numenor would warn against the danger of lusting after power. I am not sure If I ever decided on a name for the military organization which the Istarcanor are part of other than the Department of War. This name is a reminder that, even when they try to be as benevolent and peaceful as possible, their job is fighting wars, which is to say their job is to destroy enemies. As such, they ought to make sure that their enemies are only those things which ought to be destroyed, which is to say that their enemy is evil itself, raising the question of exactly what evil is. For this reason, part of the Istarcanor’s training is a never-ending philosophical and spiritual inquiry in which they debate this question in order to reach the best possible conclusions. My perhaps simplistic thinking went, in order for there to be a fundamentally good faction, it must be built on the correct moral philosophy, meaning the people it consists of must be moral philosophers. Of course, their philosophy was generally the same as mine. I am realizing that, of all the different media I enjoyed but felt was missing something, Star Wars was the closest to what I wanted in many ways. One problem was that prequels showed that the Jedi were corrupt and their philosophy is dubious. I wanted the enlightened warriors in my story to be driven by what I believed to be true and good, which was not simple.
.1 The importance of political and philosophical ideas to the story
.1 The importance of political and…
.1 The importance of political and philosophical ideas to the story
A few times, I tried to give things associated with the Republic names with great significance which would serve as constant reminders of the potential for corruption. When the story was still a Harry Potter fan-fiction, the capital of the Republic was on an island which the wizards raised from the ocean. I stole the name of the island directly from Tolkien by calling it Numenor. I created a map which can be seen below. I blurred out the names of cities because they were all ridiculous and I do not want to feel the need to explain them. When it could no longer be on an island created by wizards, the seat of the Republic would be a capital city named Armenelos, which is the name of the capital of Tolkien’s Numenor. The story of Numenor would warn against the danger of lusting after power. I am not sure If I ever decided on a name for the military organization which the Istarcanor are part of other than the Department of War. This name is a reminder that, even when they try to be as benevolent and peaceful as possible, their job is fighting wars, which is to say their job is to destroy enemies. As such, they ought to make sure that their enemies are only those things which ought to be destroyed, which is to say that their enemy is evil itself, raising the question of exactly what evil is. For this reason, part of the Istarcanor’s training is a never-ending philosophical and spiritual inquiry in which they debate this question in order to reach the best possible conclusions. My perhaps simplistic thinking went, in order for there to be a fundamentally good faction, it must be built on the correct moral philosophy, meaning the people it consists of must be moral philosophers. Of course, their philosophy was generally the same as mine. I am realizing that, of all the different media I enjoyed but felt was missing something, Star Wars was the closest to what I wanted in many ways. One problem was that prequels showed that the Jedi were corrupt and their philosophy is dubious. I wanted the enlightened warriors in my story to be driven by what I believed to be true and good, which was not simple.