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resistance movement and
 
T-X and
 
butterfly effect
 
 
Cameron (female cyborg)
 
Cameron, James
 
dark vision of
 
Marxist thought and
 
war and
 
Camus, Albert
 
capitalism
 
care, ethic of
 
categorical imperative
 
causal sequences
 
cause and effect
 
Cavell, Stanley
 
chairos
 
Chalmers, David
 
“Chinese room”
 
Christian belief
 
Clark, Andy
 
class system
 
Code Model flaws of
 
collective responsibility
 
Communist Manifesto, The
(Marx and Engels)
 
compassion
 
computers
 
conatus
(Spinoza term)
 
Connor, John
 
cyborg protectors of.
See
Cameron;
 
dialectic and
 
efforts to prevent birth of
 
father of
 
foster parents and
 
future and
 
future wife of.
See
Brewster, Kate
 
gender role reversal and
 
July 4 death date of
 
mission of
 
mother’s protection of
 
as opponent of killing
 
savior destiny of
 
symbolic resurrection of
 
as Terminators’ target
 
training of
 
as World Historical Individual
 
Connor, Sarah
 
actions vs. fate and
 
aliases of
 
assaults on doctors by
 
changing of history and
 
on death
 
Dyson murder plan of
 
Dyson sparing by
 
empty tomb of
 
first appearance of
 
gender stereotype reversal and
 
killing of
 
mental hospitals and
 
mission of
 
moral reasoning and
 
as mother
 
persona change of
 
Reese’s impregnation of
 
simulation and
 
soul and
 
as stained warrior
 
T-101’s destruction by
 
timeline and
 
toughness of
 
as World Historical Individual
 
consciousness
 
unconscious stereotypes vs.
 
See also
self-awareness
 
consequentialism
 
definition of
 
inherent flaw in
 
moral judgments and
 
See also
utilitarianism
 
cooperation
 
corporations
 
crying
 
Cyberdene Systems
 
plot to destroy
 
See also
Skynet
 
cybernetics
 
 
Darwin, Charles
 
Da-sein
(Heidegger concept)
 
Dawkins, Richard
 
death
 
reality of
 
vs. never existing
 
See also
killing; suicide
 
definite descriptions
 
demonstrative descriptions
 
Dent, Arthur
 
deontology
 
deprivation, misfortune vs.
 
Descartes, René
 
descriptions
 
determinism
 
Devitt, Michael
 
dialectic
 
dignity
 
divine command
 
Dixon, Charles
 
DNA
 
Donnellan, Keith
 
Draper, Kai
 
duty-based ethics
 
Dyson, Danny
 
Dyson, Miles
 
death of
 
morality of murdering
 
Dyson, Tarissa
 
 
Einstein, Albert
 
emotions
 
machines and
 
empathy
 
end to history
 
end vs. means
 
Engels, Friedrich
 
Epicurus
 
eternalism
 
ethical problems.
See also
moral
headings
 
euthanasia
 
evolution
 
existenialism
 
expressions (linguistic)
 
semantic vs. pragmatic
 
extended phenotype
 
externalism
 
 
fate
 
changing of
 
free will vs.
 
scientific explanation and
 
fear
 
Feldman, Fred
 
feminist philosophy
 
fixed-future model
 
fourth dimension
 
freedom
 
free will
 
French, Sean
 
functionalism
 
future
 
agents from
 
chairotic moment and
 
death as deprivation of
 
effort to change
 
inevitability of
 
moral decisions and
 
open model of
 
precognition of
 
 
game theory
 
Geist
(spirit)
 
gender
 
moral reasoning and
 
role reversals
 
genes
 
genetic code
 
Geneva Convention
 
genocide
 
Gilligan, Carol
 
Girard, René
 
Glau, Summer
 
Goode, Andy
 
government
 
grammatical structure
 
grandfather paradox
 
greater good (utilitarian)
 
greatest good (Socratic)
 
Grice, H. Paul
 
growing-block universe
 
 
happiness.
See
greatest good
 
harm
 
hedonistic calculus
 
Hegel, G. W. F.
 
Heidegger, Martin
 
“Heinz problem”
 
history
 
Hitler, Adolf
 
Hobbes, Thomas
 
Holocaust
 
human chauvinism
 
Human Genome Project
 
humans
 
death experience of
 
destructive acts of
 
dignity of
 
end to history and
 
genetic code of
 
immortality and
 
interests of
 
machines and.
See under
machines
 
meaningful life and
 
mental life of
 
moral claims made on
 
personhood requirements for
 
rational soul and
 
reasoning by
 
rights of
 
self-awareness and
 
self-preservation drive of
 
social contract and
 
technology and
 
See also
thinking being
 
Hume, David
 
Hutcheson, Francis
 
hypothetical imperatives
 
 
idealism
 
imagination
 
Inferential Model
 
inherent value
 
instinct
 
intelligence.
See also
artificial intelligence
 
intention
 
interests
 
 
Janelle (John’s foster mother)
 
Jesus
 
Jews
 
Judgment Day
 
background to
 
cause and effect and
 
effects of
 
human deaths from
 
human resistance and
 
human survivors of
 
inevitability of
 
lesson of
 
as not inevitable
 
as past event
 
postponement of
 
Reese’s youth and
 
Sarah’s mission and
 
timeline and
 
utilitarian assessment of

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