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1 of 4 Something went wrong Page didn't load Try Again About this edition ISBN : 9781317964582, 1317964586 Page count : 206 Published : October 15, 2013 Format : ebook Publisher : Taylor & Francis Language : English Author : Ari Kohen Create Citation Table of contents The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act heroically and what prevents other people from being heroes? In our culture today, what makes one sort of hero appear more heroic than another sort? In order to answer these questions, Ari Kohen turns to classical conceptions of the hero to explain the confusion and to highlight the ways in which distinct heroic categories can be useful at different times. Untangling Heroism argues for the existence of three categories of heroism that can be traced back to the earliest Western... Source: Publisher The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act heroically and what prevents other people from being heroes? In our culture today, what makes one sort of hero appear more heroic than another sort? In order to answer these questions, Ari Kohen turns to classical conceptions of the hero to explain the confusion and to highlight the ways in which distinct heroic categories can be useful at different times. Untangling Heroism argues for the existence of three categories of heroism that can be traced back to the earliest Western literature – the epic poetry of Homer and the dialogues of Plato – and that are complex enough to resonate with us and assist us in thinking about heroism today. Kohen carefully examines the Homeric heroes Achilles and Odysseus and Plato’s Socrates, and then compares the three to each other. He makes clear how and why it is that the other-regarding hero, Socrates, supplanted the battlefield hero, Achilles, and the suffering hero, Odysseus. Finally, he explores in detail four cases of contemporary heroism that highlight Plato’s success. Kohen states that in a post-Socratic world, we have chosen to place a premium on heroes who make other-regarding choices over self-interested ones. He argues that when humans face the fact of their mortality, they are able to think most clearly about the sort of life they want to have lived, and only in doing that does heroic action become a possibility. Kohen’s careful analysis and rethinking of the heroism concept will be relevant to scholars across the disciplines of political science, philosophy, literature, and classics. Source: Publisher More about this edition Show less Get book Buy Digital This edition Any edition Google Play Books $42.36 · ebook Get book Kindle Store $52.95 · ebook Get book Barnes & Noble $39.99 · ebook Get book Kobo $52.99 · ebook Get book More options Borrow Edit location Cancel Check availability at libraries near you No matching city or zip code Available near you Stanford University Lane Medical Library Hardcover Stanford Auxiliary Library 1&2, Business Library, Hoover Institution Library, Robert Crown Law Library, J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library Pinned Pin library Library pinned Library unpinned Borrow Don't see it at your library? Try updating your location, or search on WorldCat. Search WorldCat Other editions No image available No image available No image available Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero 2014 Oct 15, 2013 2014 Aug 19, 2015 Routledge Taylor & Francis Routledge Routledge Hardcover ebook — Paperback 191 pages 206 pages 191 pages 192 pages More info More info More info More info Common terms and phrases Achaeans achieve Achilles Achilles and Odysseus Achilles and Socrates actions afterlife Agamemnon Ahrensdorf 1995 Apology argues argument Athenians Athens attempt battle battlefield hero Benardete Calypso cave Cebes celebrated cf chapter character choice chooses claim classically heroic clear conclusion considered Coriolanus course critique Crito death decision deeds demonstrate Deneen descent dialogue discussion endurance enemies epic example fate father fighting friends glory gods Greek Hades harm Hector Hercules heroic behavior heroism highlights Homeric heroes human Iliad important insofar Janusz Korczak John Kerry John McCain journey jurors Kerry Kerry’s killed kleos Kohen Korczak laws Lesser Hippias Lifton live McCain Meletus mortality Munyeshyaka myth Myth of Er nostos notes Odys Odysseus Odysseus’s ofthe one’s other-regarding hero Patroclus Patroklos Phaedo philosopher Phthia Plato political polytropic Priam question reading regard Republic says Schein Shakespeare 1967 Simmias simply Socrates soul speak suffering suggests tion Trojans Troy Tutsi ultimately virtue warrior words Zeus More terms and phrases Show less About the work Originally published : October 15, 2013 Subject : Philosophy / Political, Political Science / History & Theory , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Heroes -- Political aspects, Philosophy, Ancient MORE Author Ari Kohen Political scientist Ari Kohen is Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. His first book, In Defense of Human Rights, was published by Routledge in 2007. Search Ari Kohen Search on Google Books Search the web More by author In Defense of Human Rights A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World By Ari Kohen The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to the furthering of the ... Publisher Taylor & Francis taylorandfrancis.com Search Taylor & Francis Search on Google Books Search the web More from the publisher collection Rational Woman A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy By Raia Prokhovnik To feminists and some postmodernists reason/emotion and man/woman represent two fundamental polarities, fixed deep within Western philosophy and reflected in the structures of our languages, and two ... A Radical Green Political Theory By Alan B. Carter This volume is the first systematic, comprehensive and cogent environmental political philosophy. It exposes the relationships between the ever-worsening environmental crises, the nature of ... Post-ecologist Politics Social Theory and the Abdication of the Ecologist Paradigm By Ingolfur Bluhdorn Since the late 1980s, ecological thought and the European eco-movement have gone through a phase of fundamental transformation which has been widely acknowledged but not yet theorised in any ... More books

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Books. Advanced search. Send feedback. Contact us about Books. Back to classic Google Books. Sign in. classic Google Books. Got it. Ari Kohen. Preview. Search inside. Add to my library. Overview. Get the book. Publisher collection. More by author. 1 of 4 Something went wrong Page didn't load Try Again About this edition ISBN : 9781317964582, 1317964586 Page count : 206 Published : October 15, 2013 Format : ebook Publisher : Taylor & Francis Language : English Author : Ari Kohen Create Citation Table of contents The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act heroically and what prevents other people from being heroes? In our culture today, what makes one sort of hero appear more heroic than another sort? In order to answer these questions, Ari Kohen turns to classical conceptions of the hero to explain the confusion and to highlight the ways in which distinct heroic categories can be useful at different times. Untangling Heroism argues for the existence of three categories of heroism that can be traced back to the earliest Western... Source: Publisher The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act heroically and what prevents other people from being heroes? In our culture today, what makes one sort of hero appear more heroic than another sort? In order to answer these questions, Ari Kohen turns to classical conceptions of the hero to explain the confusion and to highlight the ways in which distinct heroic categories can be useful at different times. Untangling Heroism argues for the existence of three categories of heroism that can be traced back to the earliest Western literature – the epic poetry of Homer and the dialogues of Plato – and that are complex enough to resonate with us and assist us in thinking about heroism today. Kohen carefully examines the Homeric heroes Achilles and Odysseus and Plato’s Socrates, and then compares the three to each other. He makes clear how and why it is that the other-regarding hero, Socrates, supplanted the battlefield hero, Achilles, and the suffering hero, Odysseus. Finally, he explores in detail four cases of contemporary heroism that highlight Plato’s success. Kohen states that in a post-Socratic world, we have chosen to place a premium on heroes who make other-regarding choices over self-interested ones. He argues that when humans face the fact of their mortality, they are able to think most clearly about the sort of life they want to have lived, and only in doing that does heroic action become a possibility. Kohen’s careful analysis and rethinking of the heroism concept will be relevant to scholars across the disciplines of political science, philosophy, literature, and classics. Source: Publisher More about this edition Show less Get book Buy Digital This edition Any edition Google Play Books $42.36 · ebook Get book Kindle Store $52.95 · ebook Get book Barnes & Noble $39.99 · ebook Get book Kobo $52.99 · ebook Get book More options Borrow Edit location Cancel Check availability at libraries near you No matching city or zip code Available near you Stanford University Lane Medical Library Hardcover Stanford Auxiliary Library 1&2, Business Library, Hoover Institution Library, Robert Crown Law Library, J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library Pinned Pin library Library pinned Library unpinned Borrow Don't see it at your library? Try updating your location, or search on WorldCat. Search WorldCat Other editions No image available No image available No image available Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero 2014 Oct 15, 2013 2014 Aug 19, 2015 Routledge Taylor & Francis Routledge Routledge Hardcover ebook — Paperback 191 pages 206 pages 191 pages 192 pages More info More info More info More info Common terms and phrases Achaeans achieve Achilles Achilles and Odysseus Achilles and Socrates actions afterlife Agamemnon Ahrensdorf 1995 Apology argues argument Athenians Athens attempt battle battlefield hero Benardete Calypso cave Cebes celebrated cf chapter character choice chooses claim classically heroic clear conclusion considered Coriolanus course critique Crito death decision deeds demonstrate Deneen descent dialogue discussion endurance enemies epic example fate father fighting friends glory gods Greek Hades harm Hector Hercules heroic behavior heroism highlights Homeric heroes human Iliad important insofar Janusz Korczak John Kerry John McCain journey jurors Kerry Kerry’s killed kleos Kohen Korczak laws Lesser Hippias Lifton live McCain Meletus mortality Munyeshyaka myth Myth of Er nostos notes Odys Odysseus Odysseus’s ofthe one’s other-regarding hero Patroclus Patroklos Phaedo philosopher Phthia Plato political polytropic Priam question reading regard Republic says Schein Shakespeare 1967 Simmias simply Socrates soul speak suffering suggests tion Trojans Troy Tutsi ultimately virtue warrior words Zeus More terms and phrases Show less About the work Originally published : October 15, 2013 Subject : Philosophy / Political, Political Science / History & Theory , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Heroes -- Political aspects, Philosophy, Ancient MORE Author Ari Kohen Political scientist Ari Kohen is Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. His first book, In Defense of Human Rights, was published by Routledge in 2007. Search Ari Kohen Search on Google Books Search the web More by author In Defense of Human Rights A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World By Ari Kohen The argument that religion provides the only compelling foundation for human rights is both challenging and thought-provoking and answering it is of fundamental importance to the furthering of the ... Publisher Taylor & Francis taylorandfrancis.com Search Taylor & Francis Search on Google Books Search the web More from the publisher collection Rational Woman A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy By Raia Prokhovnik To feminists and some postmodernists reason/emotion and man/woman represent two fundamental polarities, fixed deep within Western philosophy and reflected in the structures of our languages, and two ... A Radical Green Political Theory By Alan B. Carter This volume is the first systematic, comprehensive and cogent environmental political philosophy. It exposes the relationships between the ever-worsening environmental crises, the nature of ... Post-ecologist Politics Social Theory and the Abdication of the Ecologist Paradigm By Ingolfur Bluhdorn Since the late 1980s, ecological thought and the European eco-movement have gone through a phase of fundamental transformation which has been widely acknowledged but not yet theorised in any ... More books. 2 of 4 Something went wrong Page didn't load Try Again. 3 of 4 Something went wrong Page didn't load Try Again. 4 of 4 Something went wrong Page didn't load Try Again. Help Send feedback Privacy Terms.