Friday, November 2, 2012

American Culture: Heroes

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American Culture Class: Superheroes

In our American culture class we discussed superheroes and also we read a part of the book “Superheroes and Philosophy” by Jeph Loeb and Tom Morris. The authors give us examples of famous superheroes and also give us explanations about why they are superheroes.

First of all, super heroes are superheroes because they embody our biggest hopes or our biggest fears. It is not necessary that all superheroes have superpowers, they can also just have useful abilities over the human average such as intelligence. 

Everybody likes superheroes, because as Plato said, good is inherently attractive to humans, and that is the mean reason why superheroes' stories have been popular for so long.

We can learn a lot from superheroes, some superheroes teach us to don’t give up too easily such as Batman, also Daredevil reminds us that our limitations are not an impediment to reach our goals. I think all people should go back to their childhood and feel again the inspiration that they felt once for superheroes.

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