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-__~PREVIEW~__- Discussion 5: The Hero

Posted by Shinpachi222 - November 18th, 2007


>>>>>>>Hey there everyone. Thi week, I have been EXTREMELY BUSY. I have a massive Italian test to study for (and I am not so good at Italian) atop two essays, so this week I will be putting up the OUTLINE for my next discussion. Please Bear with me and enjoy. The next one will likely be the longest and best quality to date, even if it's a little late in the making.<<<<<<<a HERO is best left UNSUNG, otherwise their HERO status could be compromised.

- What makes a hero a hero?

- A hero does not need to wield a sword of steel.

- Selflessness and humility are the two main characteristics of the true hero.

- If one does not contain these virtues, they cannot be a true hero.

- When someone does something just for glory or riches, they are a mercenary.

- If you raise a hero up too high, they may become a mercenary, or at least.

- A great example is Odysseus from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

- Odysseus became obsessed with his own wittiness, and so did not offer sacrifice to the
gods, believing him above such things.

- He was punished with a quite lengthy trip home.

- When a person gets that taste of glory, they want more. It is a supremacy/alpha-male
issue.

- The hero must be kept humble, and praised out of earshot.

- The person who contains the quintessence of heroic virtues is not affected by praise.

- Like Hector from the Iliad, who is highly praised in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, the
true hero contains all virtue and no selfish desire.

- Of course, being born into power gives you an immediate crash-course in handling high
praise.

- One who is born lower that royalty and not given such power can certainly be thought of
as being even stronger in their values.

- Because of the average hero's tendency to grab power when it is so willingly offered so
often, we should keep records of their bravery and pass on their stories to future generations as an untainted example of selfless heroism.

>>>>>>>Once again, major apologies<<<<<<<


Comments

thats nice dude some good points and some deep ideas there
if anything a hero is one who does good but takes no credit he does these acts selflessly he wants no more power than he has already obtained and remaining out of the public eye allows him to better avoid becoming over cofident and status hungry - the silent hero if you will