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Heroic Values


Scott Ruggels

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I am finding these columns to be fascinating, and pretty on point about the traditional heroic values.  The latest one is on Justice, and the History of Zorro. 
https://arkhavencomics.com/2021/01/22/the-superheroic-virtues-justice/

 

The Governor is the head of the serpent.  Utterly corrupt, greedy, and grasping.  He is however very intelligent and (depending on the iteration) is a man who with the help of the Capitan deposed Diego’s father as Alcalde.  Physically the least imposing of Zorro’s enemies, he is in some ways more dangerous than the Capitan due to his intellect.  Diego loathes him as a tyrant but needs access to him in order to foil his schemes.  While Diego feels that Governor is a very evil man, he is again restrained from murdering him by his sense of justice.  In his deepest heart, Diego wants the governor to be tried and convicted by the law and not removed by the actions of one lone vigilante.  (Depending on the version of the story, the Governor was allowed to go into exile provided he put Don Alejandro back in his proper place as Alcalde.)

 

 

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The author The Dark Herald is correct in identifying the virtues prudence, temperance, justice, and courage as important. However, he misses the mark in that they are not just for heroes, but are for everyone. This is why they are referred to as the cardinal virtues; cardinal here means basic/fundamental. 

 

For those looking for  more information: notable books on virtue ethics have been Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, and Edith Hall's Aristotle's Way. Other notable virtue ethics scholars in the twentieth century were G. E. M. Anscome, Iris Murdoch (Booker Prize winning author) and Philippa Foot (inventor of the trolley problem). Since the late nineteenth century, many manuals/textbooks have been published on virtue ethics; some are online, and others are in print.  

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