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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2023-04-07 01:34 pm

The Virtues of Captain America

The Virtues of Captain America: Modern-Day Lessons on Character from a World War II Superhero by Mark D. White

A pop discussion of moral philosophy as embodied in Captain America. The discussion of virtues is unsystemic, and he's a little heavy on treating him as a single concept and discussing various treatments as if they were really the same even when writers hijack him. (Some of that may be my philosophical background.) Patriotism gets quite a bit of discussion as is only fitting for a contentious issue in moral philosophy.