![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While considering Batman’s vigilantism, one author said that his punishment was illegitimate. However, there were several things that made me feel like some of the writers were intellectual lightweights, particularly many of them having naïve views of the state. Many of these are questions I hadn’t considered about Bruce Wayne, Batman, and other comic book heroes. My favorite essay in it was the first, which asked the question of why doesn’t Batman just kill the Joker? The simple answer is because Batman doesn’t kill anyone intentionally, but is this morally best considering all the death and destruction he could prevent by ending the Joker? Another question is if it is moral to take in orphan boys, put them in tights, and teach them how to be crime-fighters. What beats the combination of entertainment and education? As I checked out this book, the librarian told me that I would never see Batman the same. Batman and Philosophy is part of a series of books that bring philosophical considerations to pop culture (other books in the series include The Simpsons and Metallica), and is a much more interesting way to study philosophy than reading the original works of Heidegger, Kant, or most other philosophers (it seems that being able to write and philosophize are mutually exclusive). ![]()
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