"Is it true that Superman always puts the needs of others to their own? Is the Man of Steel altruism is not really a veiled form of selfishness? Why not kill Batman Joker? What Aristotle would weigh the unequal relationship between this Batman, superior, and Robin, the inferior and alienated subject, and how does the virtuous Kierkegaard explains that Charles Xavier seeks education to their wards, the X- Men? Do not could relate the moral reasons to be postulated by Plato with the election of Peter Parker's life before and after the death of Uncle Ben? Daredevil Is it really a man of faith, and history of its origin a neoclassical story? And in any case, how would you react any citizen who received super powers at once? Who would choose the high ethical standards and who would be seduced by the power and glory? Would it be viable a society where some chosen dress coats and fly over the heads of the rest, self-proclaimed defenders of justice and humanity? "( Superheroes and Philosophy by Tom Morris)
I love the comic since I have a point. I have read thousands of comics, comics, graphic novels and I think I've gone through all the phases of reading the comic-addict for their rites of transition, critical stages, and formal existential doubts, valleys, plateaus and conceptual redevelopment as common for those who are fans of this fascinating and surrounding scene.
I soaked both the universe and introductory caricaturizante Brugueril of Mortadella, Zipis, Zapes, Carpanta, Gildas Sisters ... as more adult comics (Moebius, Corben, EC), the underground of Peter Bagge or Crumb, daily strip-like Mafalda, Peanuts or Calvin & Hobbes and the revisitation of classical mythology that has been and is the superhero genre in the hands of publishers like Marvel or DC . My
golden age, silver or bronze particular, as a reader, have been happening and all genres have interested me and made a difference on a personal level, and I have none left for too long without frequent.
So I never questioned my tastes and interests in this matter, even though this comic, until rather recently, has been regarded as a minor literary genre, something harmful and counterproductive to the cerebellum of infants or infantilized adult, and even as a hobby transition own childhood and adolescence, which was overcome with time.
nothing more absurd and unwarranted. Just open the "Maus" by Art Spiegelman, the "Born Again" Miller or "From Hell" by Moore and a half dozen other graphic novels to realize the arbitrariness and irresponsibility of some sentences, and that there more literature, culture and knowledge that much of the books without snacks, so socially more prestigious, which are edited by the world forward.
Let's talk about superheroes.
all know that the hero, both classic and modern, is a historical falsification, a construct of human imagination toward its highest ideals and values. The search for pure, so sublime, perfect.
Hector, Ulysses, Siegfried and Theseus are mythical constructs recognized ideal, with its rigid classical heroes heroic ethic in tow, with their sense of honor, possess an unshakable value system outlining the unattainable ideals of his time.
Why was and is important mask of the hero for humanity? Because we grow up imitating ... or fighting against counterfeiting. Heroes, and its modern, more bloated and technically, is embodied in the twentieth century superhero, son of the atomic age and its vagaries, are patterns, models, identity with unusual precisely what we lack.
We are social animals, we have no rigid genetic memory as the other species, so the attractiveness of those identities virtues we highlight some examples of values \u200b\u200bto which we aspire.
The presence of the hero is as old as humanity. Zeus creates the Fourth Age, more just and noble, which is the birth of a divine race of heroes who are called demigods.
In the twentieth century all this mythology Classic, which through its myths and legends explained with almost surgical precision all the condition or human nature, with his doubts, weaknesses, limitations, conditions and passions, re-worked, is contextualized and modernization.
arise superheroes and anti-heroes, those who generate chaos and endanger the system, structure, "without which the first would have no reason to be. The mythology of the twentieth century fire.
born Superman, Peter Parker, Kingpin, Gotham City, the Green Goblin, Silver Surfer ... sketched between secret identities, new values, old infidelities, defense of the innocent or a way of life and social model. Are inked with stigmata, mystical powers, a certain amorality, existential questions, trauma ... everything to ultimately retelling the same old story, that of the hero, humanity, in its incessant struggle to try to overcome himself and the way to solve, organize, manage, some chaos in there.
In Leonidas, Galactus, Theseus, Daredevil, Batman, Arturo, Bullseye, Elektra ... no substance, matter, a virtue ethics and applied ethics. There metaphysics that has meaning and political philosophy. Connecting philosophy
-superhero is interesting and this book edited by Tom Morris Books Blackie confirms this. Take
self-awareness of certain very important key to our reading is always a rewarding task. While
So, for newbies who want to know what it is madness of superheroes, I humbly recommend reading the Saga of "Daredevil" by Frank Miller, the glorious stage of J. eighties Byrne in "Fantastic Four" or the great series called "Astro City" by Kurt Busiek.
For get you started, more than anything.
And if you see some dark new moon night red silhouette perched on a roof, maybe not the blind lawyer Matt Murdock but Wittgenstein or some other logical positivist reworking some new theory of meaning. Greetings from Jim
and in the brightest day in darkest night, evil does not escape from your sight. Let those who worship evil fear your power!
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